Genuine Napoleon porcelain coffee service - Manufacture Impériale de Sèvres

Imperial manufacture of sèvres. White porcelain coffee set with golden decoration in the shape of a monogram, eagle and bee. Includes coffee maker, milkman, sugar bowl, 5 saucers and 5 cups in empire style, restoration from 1820. Good condition, but there is an asterisk on a cup of the impact on the bottom, On a saucer, the gilding is frayed (see photo). Dimensions: height of the coffee cup 5 cm, diameter 6 cm. Weight: 1.5 kg. The letter n, surmounted by a crown, the personal monogram of napoleon bonaparte is one of the most common decorative symbols of nineteenth-century europe. The importance of the monogram as a symbol of a certain person and personal property, even of a certain "sacred" property, was very pronounced at the time. Bee: to be a symbol of immortality and resurrection for one's hard work. One of the qualities attributed to napoleon bonaparte.