Unknown, Eye Miniature with Blue Iris and Auburn Locks of Hair, first half of the 19th century

Mr. John W. (1905–2000) and Mrs. Martha Jane (1906–2011) Starr, Kansas City, MO, by 1982;

Sold at their sale, Catalogue of Fine Portrait Miniatures, Russian Works of Art, and Objects of Vertu, Sotheby’s, London, July 13, 1982, lot 180, as Eye Miniature with Blue Iris and Auburn Locks of Hair [1];

Current location unknown.

Notes

[1] “Three eye miniatures, English School, first half of the 19th century, the one, showing a brown iris and brow beneath a lock of hair, mounted as a ring within a bright-cut gold bezel, another showing a blue iris and auburn locks of hair within a dodecagonal silver-gilt pendant frame, the third with a brown iris shown amidst clouds, mounted as a brooch within a twisted silver-gilt frame, the former oval 1.7 cm. (11/16 in.).”

Catalogue of Fine Portrait Miniatures, Russian Works of Art, and Objects of Vertu (London: Sotheby’s, July 13, 1982), 43, as Eye Miniature with Blue Iris and Auburn Locks of Hair.