Andrew Plimer (British, 1763-1837)
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Andrew Plimer (British, 1763-1837)

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Andrew Plimer (British, 1763-1837)
A lady in grey dress, white fichu and white mob cap
On ivory
Oval, 77 mm. high, gilt-metal frame, the reverse with a lock of hair set with gold initials ‘EW’ on a blue glass over silver foil ground
Provenance
Oskar Löwit Ladner (1873-1963) Collection, Vienna, by 1924; Leo Schidlof’s Kunstauktionshaus, Vienna, 3 April 1925, lot 56.
Oskar Berl (1873-1934), Vienna; (†) Dorotheum, Vienna, 14 May 1934, lot 133.
Goldschmidt Collection, Vienna; Galerie Fischer, Lucerne, 5 September 1936, lot 997.
D. Walch Collection, London; Galerie Fischer, Lucerne, 13 June 1951, lot 786.
Ernst Holzscheiter Collection, Meilen (inv. nos. MD/0547 and 454).
Exhibited
Vienna 1924, no. 682.
Geneva 1956, no. 354.
Special notice
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