A SWISS GOLD BOÎTE-À-MINIATURE

PROBABLY GENEVA, CIRCA 1800, WITH THE TAX MARK FOR PRAGUE, 1806/1807, THE MINIATURE DUTCH SCHOOL, CIRCA 1817

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A SWISS GOLD BOÎTE-À-MINIATURE
probably Geneva, circa 1800, with the tax mark for Prague, 1806/1807, the miniature Dutch School, circa 1817
Rectangular box with cut corners, the cover, four sides and base engine-turned with a diaper pattern, framed by a zig-zag border entwined with trailing foliage, the cover centred by a circular portrait miniature depicting Anna Paulovna, Queen of the Netherlands, wearing rich pearl jewellery and a white dress, decorated with the red sash and breast-star of the Imperial Russian order of St-Catherine, within an engine-turned laurel border
90 mm. (3½ in.) wide

Lot Essay

Grand-Duchess Anna Paulovna (St-Petersburg 1795-1865 The Hague), daughter of Tsar Paul I and his wife Maria Fyodorovna, was a sister of Tsars Alexander I and Nicholas I. In 1816, she married the future King William II of the Netherlands.
A very similar miniature is illustrated in K. Schaffers-Bodenhausen and M. Tiethoff-Spliethoff, The Portrait Miniatures in the Collection of the House of Orange-Nassau, Zwolle, 1993, p. 142, no. 95.

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