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    Russian Works of Art, Important Silver and Objects of Vertu

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    20 May 2015

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    • EMPRESS ALEXANDRA FEODOROVNA (
    Lot 89

    EMPRESS ALEXANDRA FEODOROVNA (1872-1918)

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    USD 3,750

    Estimate

    USD 3,000 - USD 5,000

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    EMPRESS ALEXANDRA FEODOROVNA (1872-1918)
    Portrait photograph signed 'Alexandra/ 96.', shown in three fourths length in dress, jewels, and kokoshnik, by Alfred Pasetti, St. Petersburg, 6¼ x 4¼ in. (159 x 108 mm.), in a later gilt-wood frame, within a wood shadow box frame, signed upper left

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    With Sophie Dupré, London.
    Acquired from the above by the present owner.

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