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Lot 101^*

A Sèvres plate from the cameo service for Count Romanzoff, circa 1808

Napoleon Bonaparte: The British Sale

27 October 2021, 14:00 BST

London, New Bond Street

Sold for £3,570 inc. premium

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A Sèvres plate from the cameo service for Count Romanzoff, circa 1808

Decorated with the portrait man in profile in imitation of a shell cameo, inscribed 'Scipion l'afriq.' and ' P.G. de la Bibl. Imp.', , the gilt rim reserved with a band of berried laurel leaves in black monochrome, 13.8cm diam., 'de Sèvres/8' in iron-red, incised 8 and T, T. in gilding inside footrim (some restoration)

Footnotes

Provenance:
Delivered on 11 February 1809 to Count Nikolai Petrovich Romanzoff or Rumyantsev, foreign minister of Russia

See Camille Leprince, Napoléon Ier & la Manufacture de Sèvres (2016), no. 128, where he illustrates another example in the Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg.

Count Nikolai Petrovich Romanzoff or Rumyantsev (1754-1826) was born in Saint Petersburg, the son of Field Marshal Pyotr Rumyantsev-Zadunaisky. He became first envoy of Russia to the Holy Roman Empire after the Treaty of Teschen in 1779. Due to his influence with Alexander I, Emperor of Russia, he also was selected as Minister of Commerce between 1802 and 1811 and President of the State Council between 1810 and 1812. In 1808 he was appointed Foreign Minister and wanted Russia to seek a closer alliance with France. However, when Napoleon invaded in 1812 he suffered a stroke and eventually retired in 1814.

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