拍品 159
  • 159

A SET OF 16 MINIATURES WITH 15 ON IVORY, DATED BETWEEN 1760 AND 1840 | A set of 16 miniatures with 15 on ivory, dated between 1760 and 1840

估價
6,000 - 8,000 EUR
招標截止

描述

  • 9.2 cm (3 5/8 in) high for the highest ; 2 cm (3/4 in) high for the smallest
in a recantgular gilt-wood frame decorated with palms and scrolls in the corners, comprising 2 miniatures of children, the largest, rectangular, representing Georgina Schickler, Countess of Choiseul-Praslin (1819-1849) by Pierre-Edouard Dagoty (1775-1871), the other oval, 9 oval miniatures portraits of men (including one of David Schickler) and 5 oval miniatures portraits of ladies

Condition

In overall good condition. 4 glasses to be cleaned. Most of them of very good quality especially the Dagoty portrait of a joung child, dated 1820. The velvet backgrounf=d to be changed, the gilt wood frame with gilding partly worn, mainly on the border.
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