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A gentleman, in embroidered red tunic with gold tabs adorned with pearls on the right shoulder, white shirt open at the neck with a gold brooch depicting a lion's head, blue cloak draped across the right shoulder, moustache and brown curling wig
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JEAN PETITOT (SWISS, 1607-1691)
A gentleman, in embroidered red tunic with gold tabs adorned with pearls on the right shoulder, white shirt open at the neck with a gold brooch depicting a lion's head, blue cloak draped across the right shoulder, moustache and brown curling wig
enamel on copper
oval, 1¼ in. (32 mm.) high, gilt-metal frame with ribbon and bow surmount, the reverse inscribed 'LL' (bottom)
A gentleman, in embroidered red tunic with gold tabs adorned with pearls on the right shoulder, white shirt open at the neck with a gold brooch depicting a lion's head, blue cloak draped across the right shoulder, moustache and brown curling wig
enamel on copper
oval, 1¼ in. (32 mm.) high, gilt-metal frame with ribbon and bow surmount, the reverse inscribed 'LL' (bottom)
Provenance
Ernst Holzscheiter, Meilen; sale, part I, Sotheby's, London, 28 March 1977, lot 51.
Exhibited
Geneva, Musée d'art et d'histoire, Chefs-d'oeuvre de la miniature et de la gouache, 1956, no. 349 (lent by Ernst Holzscheiter, Meilen).
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.
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