GERMAN SCHOOL, CIRCA 1750

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)