A pair of enamel miniatures of Laurent Corbet and his wife (née Cordebar, 1727-1798); he, in fur-bordered red velvet coat with gold frogging, lace cravat, powdered wig en queue; and she, in fur-bordered orange surcoat, lace-bordered orange dress, black ribbon choker, lace cap with orange ribbon in her upswept powdered hair

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OLIVIER LAMBERT DE BOURNER (FRENCH, FL. C. 1773-1782)
A pair of enamel miniatures of Laurent Corbet and his wife (née Cordebar, 1727-1798); he, in fur-bordered red velvet coat with gold frogging, lace cravat, powdered wig en queue; and she, in fur-bordered orange surcoat, lace-bordered orange dress, black ribbon choker, lace cap with orange ribbon in her upswept powdered hair
he, signed and dated on the counter-enamel 'Laurent Corbet peint par olivier Lambert de Bourner Le 28 fevrier 1774.'
enamel on copper
ovals, 1 3/8 in. (36 mm.) high, gilt-metal mounts within rectangular wood frames with gilt-metal palmette spandrels (2)

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Lot Essay

Very few enamels by this artist are recorded; one, depicting Mr Le Moyne, commissaire général de la marine, is dated 1773; an enamel of Mr Diamy is signed and dated 1776; an enamel of a lady, signed and dated 1782, was sold Christie's, Geneva, 28 April 1976, lot 165, and is illustrated in J. Nimmergut/A.-M. Wager, Miniaturen, Dosen, Munich, 1982, p. 227, no. 280 (erroneously as by Jean-Baptiste Ponce Lambert).

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