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Lot 210:
Description
A pair of repro British military portrait miniatures depicting officers from the 18th and 19th centuries. One miniature shows an officer in a blue coat with orange facings, wearing powdered hair in the late 18th-century style. The second miniature depicts an officer in a 19th-century red tunic with gold epaulettes and a breast star. The portraits are set within matching oval gilt frames, each featuring ornate ribbon and bow cresting at the top and bottom. Both miniatures are executed in watercolour or gouache on card supports.
Height: 21.5 cm
Width: 12.7 cm.
Condition report:
Both portraits exhibit visible foxing and mottling to the backgrounds of the card supports. The portrait on the left shows a small area of loss or white flaking at the top inner edge. The gilt frames display general wear and minor rubbing to the gilded surfaces.
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