Lot 158
A Rare Battersea Enamel Snuff Box Representing Napoleon's First Exile 1814-1815, inscribed 'Meditations of Poor Bony in the Island of Elba', hand-painted scene of Napoleon sentenced to the rocky island, brooding over the Continent in the distance, with mirrored lid and powder blue enamel base, height.75in., length 1 in., width 1.75in. Note: After Napoleon's abdication at Fountainbleau he was exiled to Elba from May 4, 1814 to February 26, 1815, and escaped and returned to France. With his decisive defeat at the battle of Waterloo, the 'Hundred Days' came an end and he was banished to the remote Island of St. Helena, where he died on May 5, 1821.
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