Loading Spinner
Don’t miss out on items like this!

Sign up to get notified when similar items are available.

Lot 279: JOHAN-WILHELM-CARL WAY (SWEDISH, 1792-1873)

Est: £4,000 GBP - £6,000 GBPSold:
Christie'sLondon, United KingdomNovember 27, 2012

Item Overview

Description

JOHAN-WILHELM-CARL WAY (SWEDISH, 1792-1873)
Désirée Clary (1777-1860), Queen of Sweden, in Swedish Court dress and gold-bordered red stole embroidered with royal crowns surrounded by laurel wreaths, her brown hair dressed in ringlets and entwined with string of pearls
signed with initials and dated 'JW 1820' (lower right)
on ivory
oval, 3 in. (77 mm.) high, gilt-metal mount

Artist or Maker

Provenance

Christie's, Geneva, 15 November 1994, lot 277.

Auction Details

Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes

by
Christie's
November 27, 2012, 10:30 AM GMT

8 King Street, St. James's, London, LDN, SW1Y 6QT, UK