Lot 80Y
24 May 2006, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £1,200 inc. premium
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A Gentleman, wearing red coat with gold embroidered button holes, matching waistcoat, white lace cravat and powdered wig worn en queue and tied with a large black bow.
Signed on obverse and dated Vestier fecit 1767, gold mount with engraved border and edge, red leather reverse.
Oval, 35mm (1 3/8in) high
Provenance: Halphen Meyer, Paris, 1975
Private Collection, Melun, France, 1977
Literature: A.-M. Passez Antoine Vestier 1740-1824, 1989, no.134, p.248, ill.p.249
Signed on obverse and dated Vestier fecit 1767, gold mount with engraved border and edge, red leather reverse.
Oval, 35mm (1 3/8in) high
Provenance: Halphen Meyer, Paris, 1975
Private Collection, Melun, France, 1977
Literature: A.-M. Passez Antoine Vestier 1740-1824, 1989, no.134, p.248, ill.p.249