Sold for:
$1,116
$1,116
Twelve Silhouettes and an Oval Miniature Figural Painting on Ivory, America, and Continental, early 19th century, including eight hollow-cut portraits of five ladies and three gentlemen of varying ages, a cut-out silhouette of a girl holding a flower sprig and one of a young man, a silhouette of a young woman done on light-sensitive paper; a cut-out silhouette of a young man sitting in a tree playing a flute with three geese nearby, together with a watercolor on ivory allegorical portrait of a woman in a diaphanous dress holding a crown beside a fire burning in an urn, eleven with frames, (imperfections), dia. 2 1/4-5 in.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2005-02-20
