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A young lady, in white dress with lace trim with garland of pink flowers draped over her right shoulder and another tied around her right arm at the elbow, blue ribbon tied with a bow at her right shoulder, loose powdered hair dressed 'à la conseillère'
Details
CHARLES HÉNARD (FRENCH, C. 1757 - AFTER 1808)
A young lady, in white dress with lace trim with garland of pink flowers draped over her right shoulder and another tied around her right arm at the elbow, blue ribbon tied with a bow at her right shoulder, loose powdered hair dressed 'à la conseillère'
signed 'henard' (lower left)
on ivory
2 3/8 in. (60 mm.) diam., set into the lid of a Louis XVI gold bonbonnière, the base with concentrical reeding scattered with pellets, the sides similarly scattered on horizontal reeding, by Nicolas Marguerit (fl. 1763-1790), Paris, 1781/82, with the first charge and discharge marks of Henry Clavel 1780-1782 and later Dutch marks
A young lady, in white dress with lace trim with garland of pink flowers draped over her right shoulder and another tied around her right arm at the elbow, blue ribbon tied with a bow at her right shoulder, loose powdered hair dressed 'à la conseillère'
signed 'henard' (lower left)
on ivory
2 3/8 in. (60 mm.) diam., set into the lid of a Louis XVI gold bonbonnière, the base with concentrical reeding scattered with pellets, the sides similarly scattered on horizontal reeding, by Nicolas Marguerit (fl. 1763-1790), Paris, 1781/82, with the first charge and discharge marks of Henry Clavel 1780-1782 and later Dutch marks
Provenance
'A Private Collection of Gold Boxes'; Christie's, Amsterdam, 18 June 1985, lot 643.
Exhibited
Hanover, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Bildnisminiaturen aus niedersächsischem Privatbesitz, 1918, no. 935.
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 15% on the buyer's premium