Lot 157: ETIENNE-LOUIS ADVINENT (FRENCH, 1767-1831)

ETIENNE-LOUIS ADVINENT (FRENCH, 1767-1831)
A young officer, in blue coat with silver epaulette, large red buttons and red collar with white edge, red waistcoat, frilled white cravat, red and blue striped tied cravat and brown stock, powdered hair
signed 'advinent' (mid-right)
on ivory
2 7/8 in. (72 mm.) diam., silver-gilt réverbère frame with blue enamel surround

with D. S. Lavender (Antiques) Ltd., London, in 2002.

PROPERTY FROM A GERMAN PRIVATE COLLECTION
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