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A girl, in low-cut green silk dress with frilled white lace bordered décolleté, her grey-powdered upswept hair dressed à la conseiller and adorned with roses
Details
ANTOINE VESTIER (FRENCH, 1740-1824)
A girl, in low-cut green silk dress with frilled white lace bordered décolleté, her grey-powdered upswept hair dressed à la conseiller and adorned with roses
oval, 1 11/16 in. (43 mm.) high, two-colour gold mount chased with foliage, berries and flowerheads, set on the lid of a circular Louis XVI dark tortoiseshell bonbonnière bordered with gold piqué posé
A girl, in low-cut green silk dress with frilled white lace bordered décolleté, her grey-powdered upswept hair dressed à la conseiller and adorned with roses
oval, 1 11/16 in. (43 mm.) high, two-colour gold mount chased with foliage, berries and flowerheads, set on the lid of a circular Louis XVI dark tortoiseshell bonbonnière bordered with gold piqué posé
Provenance
Edouard Warneck Collection, Paris; part I sold Leo Schidlof's Kunstauktionshaus, Vienna, 11 April 1924, lot 92.
Mme. Adolphe Friedmann, Paris, and thence by descent to the present owners.
Mme. Adolphe Friedmann, Paris, and thence by descent to the present owners.
Literature
L. R. Schidlof, The Miniature in Europe, Graz, 1964, II, p. 846 (praised as 'good and typical').
Special notice
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