porcelain, 27 pieces: 1 coffee pot with cover height 28, 1 teapot with cover height 21 cm, 1 sugar bowl with cover height 17.5 cm, 1 jug height 19 cm, 11 cups and 11 saucers, dia 13 cm, 1 bowl dia 21 cm, the body with wide and narrow gilt edging, on the facing side and reverse polychrome painted Napoleonic and Turkish riders on landscape base, saucers with meadow plinth, gold-heightened handles and pine finials, handles with mascarons and gold zoomorphic spouts, inside stud of teapot cover chipped, France, without mark c. 1820

Source: Academic dictionaries encyclopedias (transl. from the German). The battle of Abukir took place on 25 July 1799 near the village of Abukir, about 15 km northeast of Alexandria on the Mediterranean coast of Egypt, between Napoleon’s French army and Turkish troops. The battle is not to be confused with the famous naval battle at Abukir in 1798, in which Horatio Nelson defeated the French fleet. After the conquest of Egypt in 1798 and his ultimately unsuccessful campaign to Syria in spring 1799, Napoleon retreated to Egypt in June 1799. There, an Ottoman army of 18,000 men under Mustafa Pasha had settled near Abukir. Napoleon attacked the Ottomans with 5,000 men of infantry and 1,000 cavalry, inflicting a devastating defeat on them. On August 2, the Abukir Fort fell back into French hands.