Statue of heir emperor Jean-Andoche Junot, the one who knew Napoleon Bonaparte longer than most, having served with him from as far back as Toulon in 1793. HISTORIQUE : 1853 - 1919: Dressel, Kister & Cie. 1919 - 1936: Aelteste Volkstedter Porzellanfabrik, Zweigniederlassung Passau 1937 - 1942: Porzellanfabrik Passau Height 27 cm Wide 11 cm By the time Junot met Bonaparte, Junot had already served for three years, had been wounded once and promoted to sergeant. Becoming Bonaparte's aide, he rose to lieutenant and then accompanied the young commander for most of his meteoric career. He fought in the Italian, Egyptian, Austerlitz, Russian campaigns with his mentor, and had independent commands in Portugal and Spain. Junot became the first major French casualty of Wellington's brilliant career - at Vimiero - but, cut off from France, was lucky that the Convention of Cintra allowed him and his men to be transported home by the Royal Navy. A very able commander early on and a fierce fighter, Junot was once seriously injured in a skirmish in which he killed six men. Increasingly mentally unstable in later years, Junot's performances in Russia were not up to his usual standard and he was censured for failing to stop the Russian escape after Smolensk. In 1853 Johann Friedrich Andreas Kister and his associates bought a porcelain factory in Passau. The company was named Dressel, Kister & Cie. Kister bought this factory for his daughter, Therese whose husband Jacob Stark was his business partner. Stark died a year later, and Therese re-married Wilhelm Lenck, the son of a Thuringian porcelain painter, who was an expert in the manufacture of porcelain. Company Dressel & Kister Cie. became a family-owned enterprise under the leadership of W. Lenck and has achieved market success. The factory's products were exported to many countries in the world and received many awards. When his son, Rudolf Lenck took over management, the factory employed 300 workers. After the death of Rudolph, the factory took over his wife, Lina Lenck. Unfortunately, due to the chaos of war, she was forced to reduce production and eventually sold the factory in 1919. The buyer was other porcelain factory, Aelteste Volkstedter Porzellanfabrik, which operated in Passau under the name of Aelteste Volkstedter Porzellanfabrik AG, Zweigniederlassung Passau. The technical and artistic director since 1920 was Carl Graser of Volkstedt. The situation worsened even further with the advent of the economic crisis of the 1920s and 1930s, when luxury goods were not available to buyers. Moreover, due to over-exploitation, nearby deposits of kaolin clay were exhausted. Eventually the factory declared bankrupt in 1936 and was taken over by the city of Passau. In 1937 the factory took over Phillip Dietrich and ran it under the name Porzellanfabrik Passau. The production was completed in 1942. Three years later, as a result of warfare, the factory was destroyed and plundered. - - - In 1903, the company purchased about 350 forms for the Höchst figures from the Franz Anton Mehlem faience factory in Bonn-Poppelsdorf and successfully produced reproductions. Kister and Dressel have owned a porcelain factory in Scheibe-Alsbach (Thuringia) since 1844, which in 1863 took over the son of Krister, August Wilhelm Fridolin Kister. This lot is sent by registered mail with track & trace route number.