Antique HP French Portrait Miniature, Blond Child, Table Snuff Box, c.1820-40 gouache or after a painting

or after a painting

) and complete but for a pen nib

The flaw to note would be that one handle has been broken off at the end

No chips or cracks

she is in gouache on wafer and housed under the original convex cover glass and her original French frame

Antique HP French Portrait Miniature, Blond Child, Table Snuff Box, c.1820-40 gouache or after a paintingA beautiful blond and blue eyed child's portrait in miniature, set into the lid of a large table snuff box. She's pretty, straight forward in gaze and dressed in a shirred bodice blue gown with puff sleeves. Perhaps the child of the artist. Portrait miniatures of children are quite rare, comparatively, and sometimes remain as memento of a child who was lost to illness in young years. Measurements always appear also on our photos. This box is a larger