Lot 1: GEORG FRIEDRICH DINGLINGER (1666-1720)

A young gentleman, facing right in green cloak, lace cravat and pink ribbon, full bottomed curling powdered wig signed with monogram and dated on the counter-enamel'17GFD15.' enamel on copper oval, 15/16 in. (24 mm.) high, gilt-metal mount with outer pierced border NOTES Signed enamels by Georg Friedrich Dinglinger, the younger brother of the world-famous Saxon Court goldsmith Johann Melchior Dinglinger, are very rare. Two are in the Royal Dutch Collection, two are in the Gem„ldegalerie, Berlin, and the largest group is in the Green Vaults, Dresden (illustrated in E. von Watzdorf, Johann Melchior Dinglinger, Berlin, 1962, I, pp. 304-316).