Live Auction 1162Centuries of Style, Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes
CHRISTIAN WILHELM UNGER (GERMAN, 1775-1855)
Lot 211

CHRISTIAN WILHELM UNGER (GERMAN, 1775-1855)

Closed27 November 2013

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GBP 2,250

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CHRISTIAN WILHELM UNGER (GERMAN, 1775-1855)
Prince George of Hesse-Cassel (1793-1881), in red-piped blue coat with red collar, red and white epaulettes and aiguillettes, wearing numerous orders including the cross and breast-star of the Royal Guelphic Order, the Royal Prussian Military Medal of 1813/1814, the cross of the Military Order of Merit of Hesse-Cassel and the breast-star of the Order of the Golden Lion of Hesse-Cassel
on ivory
oval, 3.1/16 in. (77 mm.) high, gilt-metal bezel, the reverse with paper label inscribed in pen 'Prince of Hesse-Cassel'

Adolphus, 1st Marquess of Cambridge (1868-1927).
The Property of a Lady, from the Estate of the late the Most Honourable Adolphus, 1st Marquess of Cambridge, G.C.B., G.C.V.O., C.M.G. (1868-1927); Christie's, London, 16 December 1975, lot 78 (as of Prince George or Prince Frederick of Hesse-Cassel, probably by Huet Villiers).

Specialist note

The sitter was a son of Landgrave Frederick of Hesse-Cassel and his wife Landgravine Caroline, née Princess of Nassau-Usingen.