A GOLD AND AGATE CAMEO RING, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
The agate carved to depict Bacchus facing left with a ram's head at his shoulder, the gold band inscribed Wm Wood RN from Lucien Buonoparte, ring size P
Lucien Bonaparte (1775–1840) was a younger brother of Napoleon Bonaparte and a French statesman, who served as the final President of the Council of Five Hundred at the end of the French Revolution. Lucien held genuinely revolutionary views, leading to a fractious relationship with his brother Napoleon, who seized control of the French government in 1799, when Lucien was 24.
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The agate carved to depict Bacchus facing left with a ram's head at his shoulder, the gold band inscribed Wm Wood RN from Lucien Buonoparte, ring size P
Lucien Bonaparte (1775–1840) was a younger brother of Napoleon Bonaparte and a French statesman, who served as the final President of the Council of Five Hundred at the end of the French Revolution. Lucien held genuinely revolutionary views, leading to a fractious relationship with his brother Napoleon, who seized control of the French government in 1799, when Lucien was 24.
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