An early to mid-19th century engraved bone souvenir powder flask, circa 1820 - 1840


The bone stopper with metal ferrule and engraved with leaves, the body with the tomb of Napoleon within a fenced enclosure and beneath palm trees, a woman with a flower, and a crest - either a stag's head couped or a stag's head erased - atop a torse, the initial 'C' below, 10.5cm high
|Napoleon was buried on St Helena after he died there in 1821. His body was removed and re-interred at L'Hôtel national des Invalides in Paris in 1840.