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An officer, facing right in blue coat with red facings, orange waistcoat and lace cravat, wearing the badge of the Imperial Russian Military Order of St George, powdered wig, holding a walking stick in his left hand
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CHARLES BECHON (1732-1812)
An officer, facing right in blue coat with red facings, orange waistcoat and lace cravat, wearing the badge of the Imperial Russian Military Order of St George, powdered wig, holding a walking stick in his left hand
signed and dated 'Bechon a. Vars: 1795' (lower left)
oval, 2 3/8 in. (60 mm.) high, silver-gilt frame, the reverse set with a gold verre-églomisé silhouette depicting the base of a broken column with a lady's profile surmounted by the initials 'NAN' with impresa in Cyrillic and foliage, inscribed and dated in Cyrillic 'made by A. I. Tikho. July 1797' along the lower border
An officer, facing right in blue coat with red facings, orange waistcoat and lace cravat, wearing the badge of the Imperial Russian Military Order of St George, powdered wig, holding a walking stick in his left hand
signed and dated 'Bechon a. Vars: 1795' (lower left)
oval, 2 3/8 in. (60 mm.) high, silver-gilt frame, the reverse set with a gold verre-églomisé silhouette depicting the base of a broken column with a lady's profile surmounted by the initials 'NAN' with impresa in Cyrillic and foliage, inscribed and dated in Cyrillic 'made by A. I. Tikho. July 1797' along the lower border
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