SIX CHOISY-LE-ROI FAIENCE PLATES FEATURING HEROES OF NAPOLEONIC WARS The Choisy-le-Roi earthenware factory, France, circa 1820s

Lot 206

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i) Général Jean-Baptiste Beaufol dit Beaufort De Thorigny (1761 - 1825), French general during the Napoleonic Wars inscribed '… Soldats laisserez vous prendre la panache de votre Général…' ii) Philippe-Paul, comte de Ségur (1780 –1873), French general and a historian, he took part in Napoleon I's campaign in Spain and the Russian campaign of 1812 inscribed ' Ségur, Maréchal de Camp, l'emporte de vive force les positions de l'ennemi' iii) Pierre Michel Rouelle (1770-1833), French general during the Napoleonic Wars Inscribed 'Rouelle Maréchal de Camp au siège de Lérida. Il franchit le premier la brèche et tua la sentinelle' iv) Battle scene inscribed 'Mandement, Soldat au 6ème Rég. de Cav./Rendez-vous' v) Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier de La Fayette, Marquis de La Fayette (1757 –1834), known as Lafayette, French military officer and politician who volunteered to join the Continental Army, led by General George Washington, in the American Revolutionary War, and a key figure in the French Revolutions of 1789 and of 1830 inscribed 'Lafayette Lieutenant Général. Il s'élança le premier dans une redoute hérissée de canons' vi) Le général François-Joseph-Augustin Delegorgue (1757-1806), blessé au combat par les Monténégrins, ordonne à ses soldats de l'abandonner Inscribed 'Delgorgue Général de Brigade / Soldats sauvez-vous, vivez, pour me venger' earthenware, impressed stamp 'P&H CHOISY' and 'P&H' D. 21.5 cm (each) Similar plates are in the collection of the Museum of Rueil-Malmaison, châteaux de Malmaison et Bois-Préau

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