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Porcelain lidded vase with portrait son of Emperor Napoleon:
DUKE OF REICHSTADT- "NAPOLEON II."
around 1820
1. Description:
Beautiful porcelain lidded vase with portrait of Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte's son, the Duke of Reichstadt ("Napoleon II.").
Porcelain, with floral decor, gilded. Oval medallion with colorfully painted depiction of the emperor's son.
Plug-in lid, gilded metal base with laurel wreath. Metal mount.
No porcelain mark visible. Date of origin 1st half of the 19. century.
Height: 38cm
2. Condition:
Good to very good condition! No chips or similar damge visible. Very nice painted portrait of the young duke. Absolute collector's item. The pictures are part of the description.
3. Background information on Franz Duke of Reichstadt (1811-1832), son of Emperor Napoleon:
Napoleon Franz Joseph Karl Bonaparte (French Napoléon-François-Joseph-Charles Bonaparte; b. 20 March 1811 at the Tuileries Palace in Paris; † 22 July 1832 at Schönbrunn Palace near Vienna) was the only legitimate male descendant of Napoléon Bonaparte; he was descended from the latter's second marriage to Marie-Louise of Austria.
As imperial crown prince of France, he had held the title King of Rome since 1811. After Napoléon's fall, he held the title Prince of Parma, derived from his mother, from 1814 to 1817. During the reign of the Hundred Days, he again became French Prince impérial for a short time and, after his father's final abdication as Napoleon II, was titular Emperor of the French from June 22 to July 7, 1815; however, this claim expired as early as July 8 with the restoration of the kingdom by Louis XVIII. In 1818, his maternal grandfather, Emperor Francis I of Austria, appointed him Duke of Reichstadt.
The duke struggled with lung problems at an early age and eventually contracted tuberculosis. At the age of 21, Franz died on July 22, 1832, at Schönbrunn Palace near Vienna.
The duke's body was buried in the imperial crypt under the Capuchin Church in Vienna, his heart in the Habsburg heart crypt and his entrails in the ducal crypt of St. Stephen's Cathedral. This was in accordance with the burial ceremonial customary at the Viennese court at the time. A "Separate Burial" with division of one body among all three traditional Viennese Habsburg burial sites (Imperial Crypt, Herzgruft, Duke's Crypt) was given to a total of 41 members of the dynasty.
(Source: Wikipedia)
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