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Attributed to John O’Brisset (English, active 1705-1728): a rare pressed horn oval portrait relief, historically believed to depict Sir Oliver leader of Stoughton Magna (alias Great Stoughton/ Staughton), County Huntingdon but probably depicting Charles I image 1
Attributed to John O’Brisset (English, active 1705-1728): a rare pressed horn oval portrait relief, historically believed to depict Sir Oliver leader of Stoughton Magna (alias Great Stoughton/ Staughton), County Huntingdon but probably depicting Charles I image 2
Attributed to John O’Brisset (English, active 1705-1728): a rare pressed horn oval portrait relief, historically believed to depict Sir Oliver leader of Stoughton Magna (alias Great Stoughton/ Staughton), County Huntingdon but probably depicting Charles I image 3
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Attributed to John O'Brisset (English, active 1705-1728): a rare pressed horn oval portrait relief, historically believed to depict Sir Oliver leader of Stoughton Magna (alias Great Stoughton/ Staughton), County Huntingdon but probably depicting Charles I
Mounted within a white metal oval snuff box

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Attributed to John O'Brisset (English, active 1705-1728): a rare pressed horn oval portrait relief, historically believed to depict Sir Oliver leader of Stoughton Magna (alias Great Stoughton/ Staughton), County Huntingdon but probably depicting Charles I

Mounted within a white metal oval snuff box
The portrait depicting a bearded male sitter, with flowing locks, clad in an armoured breastplate and flowing drapery set within the hinged lid of the oval box with reeded foot, the underside of the base with an engraved coat of arms including three downturned shells, two boars and one lion head within a scrolling border, the interior with a handwritten ink label reading The arms on the base are registered to Sir Oliver Leader of Stoughton Magna Co. Huntingdon; (Temp? Elizabeth) and his descendants. Rec..St Search F66 (?). July 24, 1895, W.E.G, 7.7cm long, 5.8cm wide

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Provenance
The collection of Sir Michael and Lady Oppenheimer DD (3rd Baronet, British, 1924-2020), Jersey, thence by family decent.

Sir Michael Oppenheimer's maternal grandparents were Sir Robert Grenville Harvey, 2nd Baronet (1856-1931) and Lady Emily Blanche Harvey (1872-1935) of Langley Park, Buckinghamshire which was the Harvey Baronet's main family seat from 1788 until 1945.

Sir Michael's paternal family wealth was derived from mining interests in South Africa and his father Bernard Oppenheimer, as Chairman of the South African Diamond Corporation, received a baronetcy from George V in 1921 for setting up diamond sorting factories to employ wounded ex-servicemen after the First World War. The Oppenheimer family was involved with the prestigious De Beers brand over the subsequent decades of the 20th century and Lady Oppenheimer DD (1926-2022) was a distinguished moral and philosophical theologian, with a particular interest in the ethics pertaining to personal relationships.

Obrisset was a British sculptor, medallist, goldsmith and metalworker of huguenot descent, the son of Jean Aubrisset of Dieppe, who was a noted ivory carver.

Literature
See P.A.S Phillips review "John Obrisset and his works in horn and tortoiseshell 1705-28", London, 1931 by WK (William King, of the British Museum),
Burlington Magazine, vo. 60, no. 347, February 1932, p. 120.
R. Fedden,'John Obrisset a notable Huguenot craftsman', The Connoisseur, vol. 180, May 1872, pp. 13-17.

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Please note the full description for this lot relating to the sitter of the plaque being Charles I as per our online catalogue is as follows: 'Attributed to John O'Brisset (English, active 1705-1728): A rare pressed horn oval portrait relief, historically believed to depict Sir Oliver leader of Stoughton Magna (alias Great Stoughton/ Staughton), County Huntingdon but probably depicting Charles I'

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