Auction: American Furniture & Decorative Arts - 2397Location: BostonDate / Time: February 17, 2008 11:00AM
Description:
American School, 19th Century
Lot of Two Portrait Miniatures of Gentlemen. Both unsigned. The first, a watercolor on ivory portrait of a man wearing a black coat, vest, and cravat, c. 1835, (some paint smudges l.c.),2 1/8 x 1 3/4 in., housed in an oval brass case with engine-turned backing with an empty small oval aperture; the second, a watercolor on paper profile portrait of a gentleman with muttonchop sideburns, (paint losses on hair and jacket),2 7/8 x 2 3/8 in., housed in a mahogany frame with oval gilt-brass liner.
Estimate $250-300