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An early 19th century French pressed burr maple snuff box, the lid with a scene of two men playing cards titled `LES DEUX GASPARD`, the rim with an inscription to a tortoiseshell lined interior, the base originally with a portrait miniature, 8cm diameter, together with a Swiss treen screw nutcracker, modelled with a hunchback straddling a flower, 5.8cm long. Provenance: The Old Rectory, Little Langford, Wiltshire. Sold by order of Trustees of the Estate of the late Miss S.F. Rooke.
Samuel Shelley (British, 1750-1808) a fine portrait miniature of Marianne de Gastine, wearing a white lace dress, tied fichu and a single strand pearl necklace, white ribbons in her powdered hair, oval watercolour on ivory, 4 x 3.3cm., within a pierced gilt scroll frame with suspension loop. * Marianne de Gastine was the daughter of Major De Gastine, a French refugee in the Dutch service. She was married at The Hague to Anthony Aufrère (b.1704-d.1781), Rector of Heigham, Norfolk from 1732-1782. See Illustration.
Charles Hayter (British, 1761-1835) a portrait miniature of Anthony Aufrère (1704-1781), Rector of Heigham, Norfolk from 1732 to 1781, oval watercolour on ivory, 6.2 x 5.1cm., some fading, within a gold frame with dark blue enamel verso, centred by an oval opalescent guilloche enamel compartment containing a lock of hair tied with tiny seed pearls and gold wire. See Illustration.
AN EARLY 18th CENTURY IVORY CARVING OF QUEEN ANNE AND PRINCE GEORGE OF DENMARK, the two portrait busts above an an engraved shield and banner below inscribed VIAE ANNA GEORGIUS within an elaborately carved border decorated with acanthus leaves, grotesque mask and griffins, surmounted by a crown and panoply of arms, in the manner of Joachim Henne (active 1663-1707), laid on a (later) shield shaped wooden plaque, 30cm by 28cm NOTE: Joachim Henne was a renowned ivory carver who worked in Denmark and Northern Germany specialising in small portrait reliefs and busts. He did a series of ivory busts of the Danish Royal family now in the Copenhagen museum. He also produced figure groups and ivory reliefs depicting mythological scenes. From 1702-07 he is recorded as the Court miniature painter at the Brandenburg Court in Berlin and is also known to have worked in wood.
ENGLISH SCHOOL. Portrait miniature of a Lady^ quarter-length^ wearing a red Dress^ oval^ 3 x 2 1/2 in; a portrait miniature of a Lady wearing head-dress by another hand; two nineteenth century silhouettes; a sepia wash sketch of harvesters and wagons attributed to Joshua Cristall; and an oil on porcelain depicting a lake landscape said to be Windermere; six (6)
A Portrait Miniature, British School, late 18th century, depicting a gentleman, quarter-length turned to the right, in a blue coat and white stock, oval, in a glazed oval gilt metal frame, 3.5x3cm: A Portrait Miniature, British School, late 18th century, depicting a gentleman, half-length turned to the right in a blue coat, tondo, in a glazed gilt metal tondo frame, 5cm., dia: A Portrait Miniature, British Provincial School, late 18th century, depicting a gentleman quarter-length turned to the left, oval, in an oval glazed gilt metal frame, 3x2.5cm: together with one further portrait miniature of a gentleman and a silhouette portrait of a lady mounted in a 9ct gold tondo frame, 3.5x2.5 and 2cm., respectively., (5)
Framed oval miniature portrait of woman in white lace bonnet and dress (6 cm x 4.8 cm), probably mid 19th century and painted on porcelain, the paper backing browned with age and written with five holograph lines, now largely unreadable [the second line perhaps `J Ritterman` - see photograph] black ebonised rectangular frame (12 cm x 10 cm)
A 19th century English School - Phil Affleck - a miniature portrait study of a Naval Officer in profile - pastel cut out card, bearing old label verso for S. Sledge 13 cm x 10.5 cm together with a further 19th century miniature pencil - Edward Collins MD - an over painted miniature portrait of a lady and a further miniature portrait of a lady on card and three further miniature studies of lady's

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