Auction: March 21, 2021
Lot #73: Napoleonic Assortment
(19) items including an Empire style bronze footed vessel having over-arching handle and cast neo-classical relief decoration, (after) Ferdinand Levillain (French, 1837-1905), marked "F. Levillain" on side; a half in-the-round, hollow cast bronze bust of Napoleon I (after) Eduard Beyrer (German, 1866-1934) depicting the laurel wreath crowned visage on a small globe having a tapered square base signed and dated "E. Beyrer, Munich 1912" on reverse; (2) copper alloy relief portrait plaques, and an enameled medallion; a copper alloy depiction of Napoleon sitting backwards in a chair; (2) small busts; a portrait bottle opener and items displaying the crowned "N", the emblematic bee or French Empire iconography