Live Auction 7999Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Glass, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes
ATTRIBUTED TO CLAUDE HOIN (FRENCH, 1750-1817)
Lot 165

ATTRIBUTED TO CLAUDE HOIN (FRENCH, 1750-1817)

Closed29 November 2011

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GBP 3,750

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ATTRIBUTED TO CLAUDE HOIN (FRENCH, 1750-1817)
A lady called the Comtesse Diane de Polignac (1746 - after 1818), in décolleté white dress, flowers and peppermint green ribbon in her upswept powdered hair, wearing a pearl necklace and earrings
on ivory
2 1/16 in. (53 mm.) diam., gilt-metal frame with split-pearl border
An old paper label on the reverse is inscribed 'La Comtesse Diane de Polignac par Charles Houin. [latter two names effaced] Hall'.

Ted Peckham, Esq.; Sotheby's, London, 21 February 1966, lot 69.

Specialist note

Comtesse Diane de Polignac was the daughter of Armand XVII, Marquis de Polignac and Diane Adélaïde Zéphirine de Mancini. From 1778 she was First Lady-in-Waiting to Madame Elisabeth of France, sister of King Louis XVI. She was admitted to the inner circle of Queen Marie-Antoinette at the Hameau of Trianon. During the French Revolution she fled France with other members of her family and settled in St Petersburg where she died.