Catalogue of Fine Portrait Miniatures, Russian Works of Art, and Objects of Vertu, Sotheby’s, London, July 13, 1982, lots 178-181
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Unknown, Eye Miniature

Artist Unknown (English)
Title Eye Miniature
Medium Photograph
Setting Gold frame
Dimensions 7/8 in. (2.2 cm)

doi: 10.37764/8322.5.4885

Provenance

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 181, as Eye Miniature [1];

Current location unknown.

Notes

[1] “An eye miniature showing a pair of blue eyes, mounted as a brooch within an octagonal silver-gilt frame, the reverse inscribed Rebekah Nichols—Obt 30 Jany/AEts 65 Yrs; another eye miniature showing a pair of brown eyes, mounted as a brooch within a silver-gilt frame in the form of a coiled serpent; and a photograph of a pair of eyes within a gold frame, 2.2 cm. (1/8 in.).”

References

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

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Catalogue of Fine Portrait Miniatures, Russian Works of Art, and Objects of Vertu, Sotheby’s, London, July 13, 1982, lots 178-181
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