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Ignazio Pio Vittoriano Campana
A Girl, facing right in loose white dress revealing her left breast, bows at shoulder, white fichu tied at corsage, upswept powdered hair
set in a rectangular Louis XVI gold-mounted ivory carnet-de-bal inscribed 'SOUVENIR D'AMITIE', the reverse with a glazed curl of brown hair, the gold mount struck with the Paris date-letter for 1779/1780 and the charge and discharge marks of Jean-Baptiste Fouache oval, 1 5/8in. (41mm.) high
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A Girl, facing right in loose white dress revealing her left breast, bows at shoulder, white fichu tied at corsage, upswept powdered hair
set in a rectangular Louis XVI gold-mounted ivory carnet-de-bal inscribed 'SOUVENIR D'AMITIE', the reverse with a glazed curl of brown hair, the gold mount struck with the Paris date-letter for 1779/1780 and the charge and discharge marks of Jean-Baptiste Fouache oval, 1 5/8in. (41mm.) high
See inside plate for Illustration