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    Sale 6439

    Important Gold Boxes Objects of Vertu including Vinaigrettes

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    22 May 2001

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    • GERMAN SCHOOL, CIRCA 1750
    Lot 50

    GERMAN SCHOOL, CIRCA 1750

    A young lady holding a black mask in her left hand, facing right in fur-bordered blue dress with lace-bordered white underdress with fur cuffs, blue ribbon tied in bow at neck, blue flowers and black plume in her long powdered curled hair; seated in a lilac-upholstered gilt-wood sofa; and a young lady holding a pink rose in her right hand, full face in low-cut gold-bordered white silk dress with white lace underdress, blue sash tied with bow at her waist, drop pearl pendant at corsage, blue stole flowing from her left shoulder, wearing a garland of multi-coloured flowers across her bodice, flowers in her upswept dressed powdered hair; cloud and sky background

    Price realised

    GBP 1,175

    Estimate

    GBP 800 - GBP 1,200

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    GERMAN SCHOOL, CIRCA 1750
    A young lady holding a black mask in her left hand, facing right in fur-bordered blue dress with lace-bordered white underdress with fur cuffs, blue ribbon tied in bow at neck, blue flowers and black plume in her long powdered curled hair; seated in a lilac-upholstered gilt-wood sofa; and a young lady holding a pink rose in her right hand, full face in low-cut gold-bordered white silk dress with white lace underdress, blue sash tied with bow at her waist, drop pearl pendant at corsage, blue stole flowing from her left shoulder, wearing a garland of multi-coloured flowers across her bodice, flowers in her upswept dressed powdered hair; cloud and sky background
    oval, 2 13/16 in. (72 mm.) wide, hinged fitted case, and oval, 3 1/8 in. (80 mm.) wide, hinged fitted fishskin case (2)

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