Live Auction 10397Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes
PIERRE-LOUIS BOUVIER (SWISS, 1765-1836)
Lot 412 Property from a Dutch Collection to benefit the Nederlandse Hartstichting and Dutch Cancer Society
LOT 412

PIERRE-LOUIS BOUVIER (SWISS, 1765-1836)

Closed3 June 2015

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GBP 8,750

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PIERRE-LOUIS BOUVIER (SWISS, 1765-1836)
A pair of miniatures: a young gentleman, seated on an upholstered chair, in blue coat, white waistcoat, frilled white cravat, his left arm resting on a hardstone table, and a young lady, seated on a giltwood chair draped with a red cashmere shawl, in white Empire dress, her right arm resting on the back of the chair; both with wood-panelled interior
Signed and dated 'Bouvier 1806' (mid-left and mid-right, respectively)
On ivory
87 mm. diam., gilt-metal mount within ormolu frames

The Collection of Dr Victor Zuckerkandl (1851-1927) and his wife Paula née Freund (d. 1927), Berlin.
The sale of their estate, auction house C. J. Wawra, Vienna, 7-8 May 1928, lots 66 and 67 (unsold and subsequently transferred to Dr Fritz Zuckerkandl, heir and nephew of the previous).
Dr Fritz Zuckerkandl (1895-1983), Vienna; Dorotheum, Vienna, 10-12 October 1929, lot 62 (1,800 Austrian Schilling).
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 10 July 1990, lot 34.
Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 16 November 2004, lot 558 (sold with the property title 'Property from an elegant Tuscan villa of a distinguished German fashion designer', and provenance listed as follows: 'The former Mühsam collection, Berlin. Thence to the present owner').

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The present lot is being offered for sale to benefit two very deserving charities, the Dutch Heart Foundation (De Nederlandse Hartstichting) and the Dutch Cancer Society (KWF Kankerbestrijding).