Black Transferware Plate - Napoleon (Boch Freres)
Black Transferware Plate - Napoleon (Boch Freres)
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Napoleonic commemorative plate made by Boch Freres, at La Louviere Belgium
Boch Freres Keramis (one of the most important Continental faience manufacturers - same lineage that later intersects with Villeroy & Boch)
Printed mark on the back places this piece circa 1900-1925 (pre-1930); later marks lost the "Fabrication Belge" text
Part of a Napleon Series, each depicting a specific campaign, with the emperor's imperial monogram N in laurel wreath cartouche
Scene depicts Bataille d'Iena - 14 October 1806 / The Battle of Jena, Napoleon's crushing victory over the Prussian Army)
Exact engraving is derived from Charlet/Raffet style Napoleonic battle lithographs reused widely in mid-19th c prints
Not kitchen china by salon-display, empire nostlagia porcelain (made for Patriotic bourgeois households, officers' clubs and regimetnal mess hals, and commemorative displays)
Napoleonic commemorative plate made by Boch Freres, at La Louviere Belgium
Boch Freres Keramis (one of the most important Continental faience manufacturers - same lineage that later intersects with Villeroy & Boch)
Printed mark on the back places this piece circa 1900-1925 (pre-1930); later marks lost the "Fabrication Belge" text
Part of a Napleon Series, each depicting a specific campaign, with the emperor's imperial monogram N in laurel wreath cartouche
Scene depicts Bataille d'Iena - 14 October 1806 / The Battle of Jena, Napoleon's crushing victory over the Prussian Army)
Exact engraving is derived from Charlet/Raffet style Napoleonic battle lithographs reused widely in mid-19th c prints
Not kitchen china by salon-display, empire nostlagia porcelain (made for Patriotic bourgeois households, officers' clubs and regimetnal mess hals, and commemorative displays)