BY WEIS, CIRCA 1820

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A COLOURED WAX PORTRAIT RELIEF OF A GENTLEMAN
BY WEIS, CIRCA 1820
In profile to left wearing a black coat, the slate ground signed Weis Sc 1820, in a turned wood frame
The wax - 2¾in. (7cm.)
And a coloured portrait relief of an old lady, in turned wood frame -- the wax - 2¼in. (6cm.) (2)

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Lot Essay

Johann Weiss, medallist and coin-engraver was born in Austria in 1794 and died in 1861.

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
E. J. Pyke, A Biographical Dictionary of Wax Modellers. Oxford U.P., 1973, p.156.

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