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Jeremiah Meyer (British, 1735-1789)
A boy in blue coat
On ivory
Oval, 87 mm. high, gilt-metal fausse-montre frame with plaited hair and blue glass reverse
A boy in blue coat
On ivory
Oval, 87 mm. high, gilt-metal fausse-montre frame with plaited hair and blue glass reverse
Provenance
With Leo R. Schidlof, from whom acquired by Ernst Holzscheiter in London, 27 April 1951 (inv. nos. MD/0528 and 385).
Exhibited
Geneva 1956, no. 296.
Special notice
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