Lot 19

PAIR OF SMALL ENAMEL PORTRAIT MINIATURES OF A HUSBAND AND WIFE
LATE 17TH CENTURY




Auction: Day One | Wed 12th Nov at 10am | Lots 1 to 338
Description
probably English or Dutch, oval, painted on copper, the gentleman with long dark hair, high white collar and black robe, the lady with a black coif headdress with a black silk cap, with a string of pearls and an ermine trimmed black robe, mounted as a pair of yellow metal seed pearl set clasps; together with a SMALL PORTRAIT MINIATURE OF A GENTLEMAN, LATE 17TH CENTURY, oval, painted on copper, dressed in a powdered wig and orange robe, set in a yellow metal locket with loop (3)
Dimensions
the pair 2.5cm high
Provenance
Part of the former contents of Poltalloch House, Kilmartin, Argyll; designed by William Burn in the Scottish Baronial style and built circa 1849-1853 for the Malcolm family



