CHARLES SHIRREFF (SCOTTISH circa 1750-circa 1829)
Portrait miniature of a Lady facing left, wearing a white dress with frilled collar, white bandeau in her long powdered curling hair
watercolour on ivory
silver-gilt hinged fausse-montre frame, the reverse glazed to reveal plaited hair
oval, 56 mm (2 1/4 in) high

PROVENANCE:
Sale, Christie's, London, 21 November 2000, Important Portrait Miniatures, Gold Boxes and Objects of Vertu, lot 187 as by Philip Jean

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