Antique French Commemorative Portrait Snuff Box, c.1810 Marriage of Napoleon and Marie Louise bell flowers a wonderfully Holy water font

a wonderfully Holy water font with carved foliage & vine accents and displayed on a deep blue or navy velvet mat

sadly these did not make it here unscathed

and the high prices

Our early 20th century oil painting is a superb copy

Antique French Commemorative Portrait Snuff Box, c.1810 Marriage of Napoleon and Marie Louise bell flowers a wonderfully Holy water fontFabulous antique French commemorative snuff box, compost material with a metal portrait disc of Napoleon and Marie Louise, his 2nd wife, whom he married after Josephine and in order to produce a child and heir. The couple married on April 1, 1810, when he was 40 and she was 18. The marriage failed as Napoleon did, having produced a baby boy, "King of Rome", whom Marie Louise summarily dumped off at grandmother's Vienna Palace, Shnbrunn. The child grew