LOT-LSE79. For your consideration is an exceedingly rare and historically important original antique c.1848 President / King / Emperor of France, Napoleon III Royal Service Palace Porcelain Plate / Dish.

Diameter of the royal service salad plate is 7.75". Official manufacture / commission for Napoleon III, France. Featuring a flow blue Royal monogram cipher N for Napoleon III with crown / coat of arms. Condition is original / excellent. No damage whatsoever. Tool marks on base. No additional markings. This salad plate was part of the original Palace Royal service for Napoleon III. Likely used for an official banquet or state dinner. Guaranteed authentic.

Napoleon III (Charles Louis Napoléon Bonaparte; 20 April 1808 – 9 January 1873) was the first President of France (as Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte) from 1848 to 1852, and the last monarch of France as Emperor of the French from 1852 to 1870. A nephew of Napoleon I, he was the last monarch to rule over France. Elected to the presidency of the Second Republic in 1848, he seized power by force in 1851, when he could not constitutionally be reelected; he later proclaimed himself Emperor of the French. He founded the Second Empire, reigning until the defeat of the French Army and his capture by Prussia and its allies at the Battle of Sedan in 1870. Napoleon III was a popular monarch who oversaw the modernization of the French economy and filled Paris with new boulevards and parks. He expanded the French overseas empire, made the French merchant navy the second largest in the world, and engaged in the Second Italian War of Independence as well as the disastrous Franco-Prussian War, during which he personally commanded his soldiers and was captured.