"Passion Bottle Decorated With The Return Of Napoleon's Ashes -"
Made of painted wood and Nevers spun glass. Votive bottle known as a boatman's bottle depicting the return of Napoleon's ashes.
Circa 1830.
Height: 24.5 cm.
Cracks in the bottom and neck of the bottle are not detrimental. The earliest known passion bottles date from the mid-18th century. They often depict episodes from the life of Christ, but also masses and weddings. We are familiar with boats in bottles, less so with votive bottles, an expression of the boatmen's religious devotion. Here we are dealing with the immortalization of a figure in French history.
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