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Fine Miniature On Boxwood Snuff Box
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Pre 1837 VR item# 389641
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$450
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A particularly fine example of stippled painting is displayed under glass on the top of this simple boxwood snuff box: an Alpine beauty is portrayed in her native costume, a striped blue apron over her red dress, a brown cape, her hair bound up in a black bandeau with a toss of red ribbons on top. The details are almost microscopic! Measuring 1-5/8 inches in diameter and one inch high, the piece is in superb condition and was probably made in Switzerland or the Tyrol in the second quarter of t ...click for details
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17th Century Masterpiece Miniature
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Pre 1700 item# 374047
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$4000 SALE!
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This extraordinarily fine miniature on copper, the finest I have owned, is of a handsome bearded man, probably French, and dates from around 1600. The exquisite details of the features, the lace-trimmed blouse, the draperies and landscape in the background, all rendered in brilliant colors, give the portrait a jewel-like quality, further emphasized by its wildly fanciful frame, a wreath of silver-foil flowers and foliage. Around 2-3/8 inches by 1-3/4 inches, the painting’s frame is roughly 10 ...click for details
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Portrait Miniature of a Seated Beauty
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Pre 1800 item# 360232 (stock#393AAA)
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$800.00
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Charmingly naive, a scene from a Jane Austen novel, this portrait miniature, watercolor and gouache on parchment, of a beautiful brunette features exquisite detail: the jewelry, the textiles and lace -- particularly the lace shawl and East Indian turban --, the workbasket on the table, the wainscoting and room furnishings, ... Dating from around 1800, the image, under the original glass, is approximately 2-1/2 inches in diameter, the ebonized frame is five inches by 5-1/2 inches. It is in fresh ...click for details
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