ATTRIBUTED TO WILLIAM WOOD (BRITISH 1769-1810) Portrait miniature of a Gentleman, circa 1790 wearing blue coat, white waistcoat and white stock Watercolour on ivory Gold frame with plaited hair border, the reverse glazed to reveal two toned locks of hair entwined in sheaf and corn formation on opalescent glass within gold mount and blue glass border Oval, 63mm (2 1/2in) high Exhibited: Comerford Collection at the Irish Architectural Archives, Dublin, 2009  Literature: The Comerford Collection: Portrait Miniatures, (privately published, Dublin, 2009) pp 10, 49 (# 203) The hair motif on the reverse is most unusual, but it would suggest the bonding of two people - a token of marriage.