Coconut cup. A mid-19th century carved Napoleonic coconut cup

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Coconut cup. A fine mid-19th century French coconut cup, carved with Napoleonic iconography, showing Napoleon on his horse, (after the painting by Jacques-Louis David), a profile of Napoleon as Emperor with trumpeting angels, the Imperial eagle and the Legion d'honneur within laurel circles, the cup on a domed base with further Napoleonic symbols and laurel leaf decorations, 20 cm high

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Provenance: Collection of Jack Webb (1923-2019), London.