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A young boy, facing left in double-breasted blue coat with copper buttons, white stock with knotted muslin cravat, short curly light brown hair
Details
FRANÇOIS FERRIÈRE (1752-1839)
A young boy, facing left in double-breasted blue coat with copper buttons, white stock with knotted muslin cravat, short curly light brown hair
signed with initials 'FF.' (lower left)
oval, 2½ in. (63 mm.) high, silver-gilt frame, the glazed reverse set with a lock of hair tied with gold wire and seed-pearls on an opalescent guilloché glass ground within a border of gold, seed pearls and translucent blue and opaque white enamel, surrounded by plaited hair within a gilt-metal border
A young boy, facing left in double-breasted blue coat with copper buttons, white stock with knotted muslin cravat, short curly light brown hair
signed with initials 'FF.' (lower left)
oval, 2½ in. (63 mm.) high, silver-gilt frame, the glazed reverse set with a lock of hair tied with gold wire and seed-pearls on an opalescent guilloché glass ground within a border of gold, seed pearls and translucent blue and opaque white enamel, surrounded by plaited hair within a gilt-metal border
Provenance
Greta S. Heckett, Heckmeres Highlands, Valencia, PA.; (+) part III, Sotheby's, New York, 5 October 1977, lot 343.
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.