A WEDGWOOD & BENTLEY BLUE AND WHITE JAPSER OVAL PORTRAIT MEDALLION, the solid pale-blue ground dipped in darker blue and with a portrait of Gabrielle D'Estrées, Duchesse de Beaufort, in profile to the left and named below MAD DE ESTREE(sic.) (minute rim chip), impressed lower-case marks, circa 1776 | Christie's

Lot 17

A WEDGWOOD & BENTLEY BLUE AND WHITE JAPSER OVAL PORTRAIT MEDALLION, the solid pale-blue ground dipped in darker blue and with a portrait of Gabrielle D'Estrées, Duchesse de Beaufort, in profile to the left and named below MAD DE ESTREE(sic.) (minute rim chip), impressed lower-case marks, circa 1776

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A WEDGWOOD & BENTLEY BLUE AND WHITE JAPSER OVAL PORTRAIT MEDALLION, the solid pale-blue ground dipped in darker blue and with a portrait of Gabrielle D'Estrées, Duchesse de Beaufort, in profile to the left and named below MAD DE ESTREE(sic.) (minute rim chip), impressed lower-case marks, circa 1776
5.5cm. high

Lot Essay

Taken from a medal by Pesez brought by Bentley from Paris in about 1776, see Robin Reilly and George Savage, Wedgwood, The Portrait Medallions, p. 133

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