TWENTY-FOUR ROYAL COPENHAGEN PORTRAIT SILHOUETTES OF THE DANISH ROYAL FAMILY AND RELATED MEMBERS OF OTHER ROYAL HOUSES

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TWENTY-FOUR ROYAL COPENHAGEN PORTRAIT SILHOUETTES OF THE DANISH ROYAL FAMILY AND RELATED MEMBERS OF OTHER ROYAL HOUSES

LATE 19TH/20TH CENTURY, BLUE WAVE MARKS TO ALL, MOST ALSO WITH GREEN CROWN MARKS

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TWENTY-FOUR ROYAL COPENHAGEN PORTRAIT SILHOUETTES OF THE DANISH ROYAL FAMILY AND RELATED MEMBERS OF OTHER ROYAL HOUSES
LATE 19TH/20TH CENTURY, BLUE WAVE MARKS TO ALL, MOST ALSO WITH GREEN CROWN MARKS
Each within a gilt surround and molded crown frame, either named, dated, or named and dated below the portrait, including silhouettes of Christian IX, Louise, Dagmar, Olga, Georg, Alexandra and Frederik VIII
5 in. (12.7 cm.) long

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Bruun Rasmussen Auctioneers, Copenhagen, 6 March 1995, lots 1961 (part) and 2174 (part).

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Lot Essay

Depicted here are Christian IX, King of Denmark from 1863-1906 (1818-1906) and his wife Louise of Hesse-Kassel (1817-1898). Among the other silhouettes are their children, Alexandra, Queen consort of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Empress consort of India from 1901-1910 (1844-1925), Dagmar, Empress of Russia (1847-1928), George I of Greece (1845-1913) and his wife, Olga Constantinovna of Russia (1851-1926), and Frederick VIII, King of Denmark from 1906-1912 (1843-1912), and his wife, Louise of Sweden (1851-1926).

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