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    IMPORTANT GOLD BOXES,OBJECTS OF VERTU & PORTRAIT MINIATURES

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    25 May 2004

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    • CIRCLE OF HENRI BENNER, CIRCA
    Lot 119

    CIRCLE OF HENRI BENNER, CIRCA 1815

    Tsar Alexander I of Russia (1777-1825), in black coat with gold-embroidered red collar and red-bordered gold epaulettes, wearing the blue moiré sash and breast star of the Russian Order of St. Andrew, the Swedish Order of the Sword, the Russian Order of St. George, the Russian 1812 Commemorative Medal, the Austrian Military Order of Maria Theresia and the Prussian 1813 Iron Cross

    Price realised

    GBP 2,151

    Estimate

    GBP 1,000 - GBP 1,500

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    CIRCLE OF HENRI BENNER, CIRCA 1815
    Tsar Alexander I of Russia (1777-1825), in black coat with gold-embroidered red collar and red-bordered gold epaulettes, wearing the blue moiré sash and breast star of the Russian Order of St. Andrew, the Swedish Order of the Sword, the Russian Order of St. George, the Russian 1812 Commemorative Medal, the Austrian Military Order of Maria Theresia and the Prussian 1813 Iron Cross
    oval, 1 15/16 in. (49 mm.) high, gilt-metal frame, the reverse with plaited hair

    Provenance

    Mr Wolffenberg, former owner of the auction house Rudolph Lepke, Berlin.

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    Lot Essay

    For a similar miniature of Tsar Alexander I, see K. E. Schaffers-Bodenhausen/M. E. Tiethoff-Spliethoff, The Portrait Miniatures in the Collection of the House of Orange-Nassau, Zwolle, 1993, illustrated p. 315, no. 389.

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