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A small private Napoleonic collection in Sydney, Australia
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Imperial Family

NAPOLEON

Report from Marshal Berthier to Napoleon with five lines of text in Napoleon’s hand

NAPOLEON

Embroidered Bee from Napoleon’s Grand Mantle worn at his coronation

NAPOLEON

Embroidered panel from Napoleon’s throne in the Palazzo Reale, Milan

NAPOLEON

Account of the cost associated with Napoleon’s coronation shoes

NAPOLEON

A copy of Postes Imperiales 1813, with Imperial arms indicating that book came from one of Napoleon’s personal libraries

NAPOLEON

Granting of a Coat of Arms to the French town of Agen, with signatures of Napoleon and Cambaceres.

NAPOLEON

A copy of Postes Imperiales 1812, with Imperial arms showing this came from one of his personal libraries


NAPOLEON

Selected Italian prose with the gilt arms of King Louis XVIII and the private library stamps of both Napoleon and King Louis

NAPOLEON

'Nocturnes' by the composer Joseph

Naderman with dedications to the Empress Marie Louise. 1810

NAPOLEON

A crystal sorbet glass engraved  and gilded with a crown and N for

Napoleon circa 1810


NAPOLEON

A crystal wine coaster engraved with an ‘N’ and Imperial crown, probably from the Montcenis factory circa 1810


NAPOLEON

A candlestick from the Tuileries Palace. It is

highly likely this candlestick comes from the Imperial Apartments within the Tuileries Palace

NAPOLEON

An 1810 Sevres biscuit bust of Napoleon, modelled by Alexandre Brachard

NAPOLEON

Two Sevres Sucriers, or sugar bowls, given by Napoleon in 1809 to the King of Wurttemberg

NAPOLEON

A spoon with impressed markings of

TUILERIES and ‘N and crown. From the Tuileries Palace kitchens


NAPOLEON

A wine bottle stamped with N and crown for

Napoleon indicating this came from Napoleon’s cellars


NAPOLEON

The laundry list for Napoleon's washing listing all the personal items washed and their cost, for the July 1806


NAPOLEON

Expenses accounts of Napoleon's household

kept by his 'Premier Valet', Constant, while on campaign in Germany from April to October 1809

NAPOLEON

A list of Napoleon's household accounts, kept by Constant, during the State visit to Italy in November and December 1807


NAPOLEON

Eighteen pages of personal notes and

anecdotes on Napoleon and those surrounding

him


NAPOLEON

A plaster cast of Napoleon’s death mask. The original was made two days after his death, 7th May 1821

JOSEPHINE

Two saucers from a ‘cabaret à café

acquired on March 9, 1810 by the Empress

Joséphine for the Elysée palace


JOSEPH

Joseph writing to Cambaceres, from Naples, thanking him for the letter he had received from him on 7th 1807


JEROME

A Furstenberg bisque bust of Jerome Napoleon, inscribed

Premier Roi de Westphalie


JEROME

A dinner and soup plate from a service owned by Jerome

Napoleon, King of Westphalia


PAULINE

This plate was part of a 'service d'entrée'

ordered by Prince Borghese, husband of

Pauline Bonaparte, Napoleon's sister, in

December 1808

EUGENE

Eugene writing from Moscow on the 6th October 1812 to Clarke, the Duc de Feltre, Minister of War

NAPOLEON

Four crystal wine glasses, possibly made by Montcenis, with Napoleon's cypher of N and the Imperial crown.

NAPOLEON

Red wax with silk ribbon. These seals were  attached to all important state documents and

Brevets of Ennoblement


NAPOLEON

The Emperor Napoleon and the Comte de Lille, a pamphlet written in 1815, durings the 100 Days, in rebuttal to one published by Chateaubriant in 1814




MARIE-LOUISE

A Gerard écuelle à bouillon made to commemorate the birth of the ‘roi de rome’, given as a New Year gift in 1811 by the Empress Marie-Louise

EUGENE

Eugene writing in 1810, probably to Le Brun, to announce the birth of his first son.




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