Lot Essay
Another miniature of Empress Maria Fedorovna also after Sokolovski was sold Sotheby's, London, 14 December 1995, lot 65.
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Tsarina Maria Feodorovna (1759-1828), in widow's weeds, black dress with wide white collar, a cameo of Emperor Paul I suspended on a gold chain, black scarf in her curling fair hair and tied under her chin in a large bow, black hood and cloak, wearing the blue moiré sash and breast star of the Order of St. Andrew
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RUSSIAN SCHOOL, CIRCA 1825
Tsarina Maria Feodorovna (1759-1828), in widow's weeds, black dress with wide white collar, a cameo of Emperor Paul I suspended on a gold chain, black scarf in her curling fair hair and tied under her chin in a large bow, black hood and cloak, wearing the blue moiré sash and breast star of the Order of St. Andrew
oval, 3 11/16 in. (94 mm.) high, gilt-metal frame with pierced ribbon and tie cresting
Tsarina Maria Feodorovna (1759-1828), in widow's weeds, black dress with wide white collar, a cameo of Emperor Paul I suspended on a gold chain, black scarf in her curling fair hair and tied under her chin in a large bow, black hood and cloak, wearing the blue moiré sash and breast star of the Order of St. Andrew
oval, 3 11/16 in. (94 mm.) high, gilt-metal frame with pierced ribbon and tie cresting
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