Live Auction 5962Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes
SCHOOL OF JACOB AXEL GILLBERG (SWEDISH, 1769-1845)
Lot 278

SCHOOL OF JACOB AXEL GILLBERG (SWEDISH, 1769-1845)

Closed28 November 2012

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GBP 1,125

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SCHOOL OF JACOB AXEL GILLBERG (SWEDISH, 1769-1845)
Charles XIV John (1763-1844), King of Sweden and Norway 1818-1844, in black coat with gold epaulettes, black stock, wearing the blue moiré sash and breast-star of the Swedish Order of the Seraphim with the Order of the Sword below, and the badge of the Order of the Sword
on ivory
oval, 2 1/8 in. (53 mm.) high, gilt-metal frame with tied ribbon surmount

Specialist note

The present miniature is inspired by a large-scale portrait by Baron François-Pascal-Simon Gérard. Similar miniatures are illustrated in M. Olausson and J. Sjöholm, Nationalmuseum Stockholm. Illustrerad katalog över svenska och övriga nordiska miniatyrer, Halmstad, 2001, I, pp. 206 and 208.