Sale 7453
London
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27 November 2007
Price realised
GBP 1,250
Estimate
J. SPELTER (GERMAN, 1800-1856) A young lady, in off-the-shoulder white dress with ruched sleeves, wearing a gold cross suspended from a black ribbon around her neck, gold drop earring, wearing a black and gold ferronnière in her dressed hair signed 'Spelter' (lower left) porcelain rectangular, 3 3/16 x 2½ in. (63 mm.), gilt-metal mount within fitted brown leather envelope
Provenance
Collection of Architect Kurt Jahn (1903-1978), Darmstadt.
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Exhibited
Darmstadt, Residenzschloss, Schlossmuseum, 1974-2007, inv. no. 21024.
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