Auction: American Furniture & Decorative Arts - 2509Location: MarlboroughDate / Time: August 15, 2010 10:00AM
Description:
Portrait Miniature of a Girl Wearing a Red Dress, America, c. 1840, unsigned, watercolor on ivory, 3 1/8 x 2 5/8 in., housed in a hinged red leather case. Condition: Crack u.c., paint smudge l.r.
Estimate $300-500
The crack is about 1/2 in. lg. a little to left above her head; smudge is about 1/2 x 1/3 in.