LOT DETAILS

Materials:

enamel

Size Notes:

oval

Condition:

pierced gold frame with blue, white and green enamel and set with seed-pearls, the glazed reverse revealing counter-enamel

Exhibited:

London, Garrard's, An exhibition of important 18th & early 19th century miniatures and enamels at Garrard, 1961, no. 381.

Literature:

L. Gillet, C. Jeannerat and H. Clouzot, Miniatures and Enamels from the D. David-Weill Collection, Paris, 1957, no. 381. S. Coffin and B. Hofstetter, The Gilbert Collection. Portrait Miniatures in Enamel, London, 2000, p. 111.

Provenance:

David David-Weill (1871-1952) Collection, Neuilly-sur-Seine, no. 4262. Sold by Wildenstein, Paris, to Sir Charles Clore (1905-1979), London; The Clore Collection of Portrait Miniatures, part II, Sotheby's, London, 10 November 1986, lot 197.