ROBERT, CIRCA 1800

ROBERT, CIRCA 1800
A mother and four daughters seated eating at a table in an interior; the mother in short-sleeved brown dress with lace-bordered underdress, lace-bordered white scarf tied as a turban in her dark curling hair reaching to a white cup and saucer on the table beside her; the youngest daughter standing in sprigged white dress with muslin and the elder sisters seated in pale blue, pale purple and white dresses, respectively, with tortoiseshell combs in their plaited and upswept dark curling hair, one holding a cup and one holding a spoon in the bowl
signed 'Robert' (centre-bottom)
5 1/16 in. (128 mm.) diam., gilt-metal mount