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Lot 376
Sale 6223 - English & Continental Furniture & Decorative Arts
Jan 29, 2013
5:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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Estimate
$800 -
1,200
Price Realized
$2,200
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
Collection of fourteen miniature portraits, mostly on ivory mostly 19th century
Including Napoleon in his study after a painting by Paul Delaroche and of the Empress Josephine after Francois Gerard; a further portrait of Napoleon signed L. Wyda; a military portrait signed Lamy; French gilt-bronze desk clip with a portrait of a young boy; French Alphonse Giroux gilt-bronze frame displaying a figure of a young girl; and five additional female portraits. Together with two miniature porcelain plaques and two portraits on paper, one of Dorothy Kerstine by Helene Toerring, 1936.