Auction: American Furniture & Decorative Arts - 2349Location: BostonDate / Time: February 18, 2007 11:00AM
Description:
Attributed to Mary Way (New London and New York, 1769-1833)
Dressed Portrait Miniature and a Portrait Miniature of a Gentleman. Unsigned. One side with watercolor on paper and fabric mounted onto black silk, with applied shell disk buttons, depicting a young man, c. 1795, the reverse with a watercolor on ivory bust-length portrait of a gentleman, c. 1840, 2 1/4 x 1 5/8 in., mounted in a gold pendant case
Condition: Minor crease to hair tie.
Literature: William Lamson Warren, "Mary Way's Dressed Miniatures," The Magazine Antiques, (October 1992),pp. 540-49.
Estimate $3,000-5,000