Live Auction 5962Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes
ENGLISH SCHOOL, CIRCA 1660
Lot 264

ENGLISH SCHOOL, CIRCA 1660

Closed28 November 2012

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GBP 2,000

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ENGLISH SCHOOL, CIRCA 1660
A young lady, in white-bordered blue silk dress with gauze collar, wearing a crucifix suspended from a chain and pearl necklace, earrings and pearls in her fair curling hair; together with a set of four oval mica overlays in various types of contemporary dress
oil on copper
oval, 2¼ in. (55 mm.) high, in original fitted leather case with tooled gilt pattern

A paper label stuck to the interior cover of the case is inscribed 'ex. collection de E. Goldschmid Lausanne'.

Specialist note

Graham Reynolds discusses the origins of mica sets in The Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century Miniatures in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen, London, 1999, pp. 294-299. Designed for entertainment, micas come from a naturally occuring mineral that can be cleft in thin, transparent sheets or laminae.