Two miniatures of young ladies; one standing in a garden beside a trellis of honeysuckle, facing right in white silk dress with white fichu, white turban in her powdered curling hair; trees and sky background; and the other, seated at a table reading, a black and white dog seated on a yellow tasselled cushion before her, in ruffled red silk day-gown with lace underdress, gold pendant heart suspended from a black ribbon, white lace cap adorned with pink ribbon in her high-piled upswept hair; seated in a blue-upholstered gilt-wood chair, draped blue curtain and interior background
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FRENCH SCHOOL, CIRCA 1790
Two miniatures of young ladies; one standing in a garden beside a trellis of honeysuckle, facing right in white silk dress with white fichu, white turban in her powdered curling hair; trees and sky background; and the other, seated at a table reading, a black and white dog seated on a yellow tasselled cushion before her, in ruffled red silk day-gown with lace underdress, gold pendant heart suspended from a black ribbon, white lace cap adorned with pink ribbon in her high-piled upswept hair; seated in a blue-upholstered gilt-wood chair, draped blue curtain and interior background
2 7/8 in. (73 mm.) and 2 11/16 in. diam., gilt-metal mounts (2)
Two miniatures of young ladies; one standing in a garden beside a trellis of honeysuckle, facing right in white silk dress with white fichu, white turban in her powdered curling hair; trees and sky background; and the other, seated at a table reading, a black and white dog seated on a yellow tasselled cushion before her, in ruffled red silk day-gown with lace underdress, gold pendant heart suspended from a black ribbon, white lace cap adorned with pink ribbon in her high-piled upswept hair; seated in a blue-upholstered gilt-wood chair, draped blue curtain and interior background
2 7/8 in. (73 mm.) and 2 11/16 in. diam., gilt-metal mounts (2)
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