Maria Anna (1728-1797), Electress of Bavaria, facing left in lace-bordered cream dress adorned with ermine, drop ruby earring, jewel set aigrette in her powdered upswept hair, wearing the red moiré sash and breast star of the Russian Order of St. Catherine

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GERMAN SCHOOL, CIRCA 1770
Maria Anna (1728-1797), Electress of Bavaria, facing left in lace-bordered cream dress adorned with ermine, drop ruby earring, jewel set aigrette in her powdered upswept hair, wearing the red moiré sash and breast star of the Russian Order of St. Catherine
on parchment laid down on card
oval, 1 9/16 in. (40 mm.) high, bevelled silver-gilt mount

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Maria Anna Sophia of Saxony, third of the fourteen children of Elector Frederick Augustus II of Saxony (King Augustus III of Poland), was a granddaughter of King Augustus the Strong. She married Elector Maximilian III Joseph of Bavaria (1727-1777) in 1747.

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