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A young lady called Mademoiselle de Borcèle, in white dress with gathered checked border adorned with diamond and drop pearl clasps, diamond and pearls on her bodice, drop pearl earring and pearls twisted in her upswept and curled brown hair
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A young lady called Mademoiselle de Borcèle, in white dress with gathered checked border adorned with diamond and drop pearl clasps, diamond and pearls on her bodice, drop pearl earring and pearls twisted in her upswept and curled brown hair
on vellum
oval, 2 1/8 in. (54 mm.) high, gold stamped foliate mount, the silver-gilt frame with blue enamel border
A young lady called Mademoiselle de Borcèle, in white dress with gathered checked border adorned with diamond and drop pearl clasps, diamond and pearls on her bodice, drop pearl earring and pearls twisted in her upswept and curled brown hair
on vellum
oval, 2 1/8 in. (54 mm.) high, gold stamped foliate mount, the silver-gilt frame with blue enamel border
Provenance
Jeffery Whitehead, London, in 1889.
Royal Danish State Councillor Emil Glückstadt (1875-1923), Copenhagen; (+) part IV, Winkel & Magnussen, Copenhagen, 3 June 1924, lot 219.
Royal Danish State Councillor Emil Glückstadt (1875-1923), Copenhagen; (+) part IV, Winkel & Magnussen, Copenhagen, 3 June 1924, lot 219.
Exhibited
London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, Exhibition of Portrait Miniatures, 1889, catalogue p. 124, case XXXIX no. 11, as by Petitot (lent by Jeffery Whitehead).
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