ENGLISH SCHOOL, CIRCA 1660

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ENGLISH SCHOOL, CIRCA 1660
A young lady, in white-bordered blue silk dress with gauze collar, wearing a crucifix suspended from a chain and pearl necklace, earrings and pearls in her fair curling hair; together with a set of four oval mica overlays in various types of contemporary dress
oil on copper
oval, 2¼ in. (55 mm.) high, in original fitted leather case with tooled gilt pattern

Provenance

A paper label stuck to the interior cover of the case is inscribed 'ex. collection de E. Goldschmid Lausanne'.

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 20% on the buyer's premium.

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Lot Essay

Graham Reynolds discusses the origins of mica sets in The Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century Miniatures in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen, London, 1999, pp. 294-299. Designed for entertainment, micas come from a naturally occuring mineral that can be cleft in thin, transparent sheets or laminae.

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