13 Mar 2013
11:00 GMT
Oxford
Pictures, Furniture, Antiquities, Tribal and European Works of Art
Back to auction 20682
Pictures, Furniture, Antiquities, Tribal and European Works of Art
Back to auction 20682
The artist signing Herman (British, active 1820-1840)
John David Hay-Hill (1805-1880), wearing dark blue coat and tied stock, cream waistcoat and white chemise.
Signed on the obverse and dated Herman 1831, rectangular brown leather traveling case; together with a portrait miniature of a Gentleman (cracked) (English School, circa 1780), faceted gold frame, the reverse glazed to reveal strands of hair elaborately looped and set with split seed pearls and gilt-wire on blue glass, surrounded by carved wooden floral motifs; six 19th century portrait miniatures (five: oval and housed in gilt-metal frames, of which one carries hair setting to the reverse; the sixth: rectangular and housed in a red leather traveling case); a late 19th century oval portrait miniature of a Child, painted on porcelain over a photograph base, rectangular traveling case with plum coloured velvet to lining and exterior.
Oval, the title miniature: 67mm (2 5/8in) high (9)
Signed on the obverse and dated Herman 1831, rectangular brown leather traveling case; together with a portrait miniature of a Gentleman (cracked) (English School, circa 1780), faceted gold frame, the reverse glazed to reveal strands of hair elaborately looped and set with split seed pearls and gilt-wire on blue glass, surrounded by carved wooden floral motifs; six 19th century portrait miniatures (five: oval and housed in gilt-metal frames, of which one carries hair setting to the reverse; the sixth: rectangular and housed in a red leather traveling case); a late 19th century oval portrait miniature of a Child, painted on porcelain over a photograph base, rectangular traveling case with plum coloured velvet to lining and exterior.
Oval, the title miniature: 67mm (2 5/8in) high (9)
Sold for
£1,125
inc. premium
Footnotes
- John was the only son of John Hill of Gressenhall Hall and Julia Anna Hay, the daughter of a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Royal Artillery.
Category: Furniture
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