The Pohl-Ströher Collection of Portrait Miniatures, Part III
The Pohl-Ströher Collection of Portrait Miniatures, Part III
Auction Closed
December 5, 07:06 PM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
JEAN PETITOT, THE ELDER
Geneva 1607 - 1691 Vevey
PORTRAIT OF A NOBLEMAN, TRADITIONALLY IDENTIFIED AS LOUIS DE BOURBON, PRINCE DE CONDÉ
Enamel, heightened with gold, mounted in a gold octagonal shaped snuff-box, the border decorated with filigree scroll-work
The miniature: 41 by 34 mm.; The box width: 81 mm.
Sir Alfred Chester Beatty (d. 1968), Dublin;
his sale, London, Sotheby's, 17 June 1963, lot 293;
sale, Geneva, Sotheby's, 6 May 1981, lot 32