Live Auction 6966Important Portrait Miniatures and Objects of Vertu
ATTRIBUTED TO HEINRICH KOENIG (1777-1867)
Lot 192

ATTRIBUTED TO HEINRICH KOENIG (1777-1867)

Frederick William IV (1795-1861), King of Prussia 1840-1858, in dark blue coat with red piping, silver-embroidered red collar and silver epaulettes, black stock, wearing numerous badges including the 1813 Iron Cross of Prussia and the Imperial Austrian Military Order of Maria Theresa and the breast-star of the Royal Prussian Order of the Black Eagle

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ATTRIBUTED TO HEINRICH KOENIG (1777-1867)
Frederick William IV (1795-1861), King of Prussia 1840-1858, in dark blue coat with red piping, silver-embroidered red collar and silver epaulettes, black stock, wearing numerous badges including the 1813 Iron Cross of Prussia and the Imperial Austrian Military Order of Maria Theresa and the breast-star of the Royal Prussian Order of the Black Eagle
1½ in. (38 mm.) diam., elaborate silver-gilt easel frame with laurel border and surmounted by a coronet, the reverse engraved 'GIVEN TO C. A. MURRAY BY H. M. FREDERICK WILLIAM KING OF PRUSSIA. AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE. FEBRUARY, 4T.H. 1842.'

C. A. Murray.
Sotheby's, 6 November 1997, lot 287.

Specialist note

A replica, in the Albertina, is attributed to Heinrich Koenig (see N. Keil, Die Miniaturen der Albertina in Wien, Vienna, 1977, no. 26).