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JEAN-BAPTISTE JACQUES AUGUSTIN (FRENCH, 1759-1832)
A child, in décolleté white dress, long curling fair hair
signed 'Augustin' (mid-left)
on ivory
oval, 2 3/8 in. (60 mm.) high, set in the cover of a silk-lined gilt-metal 'Palais-Royal' aide-memoire, the base centred with a mother-of-pearl plaque carved with acanthus leaves and scrolls and 'Souvenir', the final handwritten pages entitled 'Aux Mânes de ma bonne Mère' and 'A notre bon et cher petit Alfred', and printed calendar for 1819, with gilt-metal propelling pencil
A child, in décolleté white dress, long curling fair hair
signed 'Augustin' (mid-left)
on ivory
oval, 2 3/8 in. (60 mm.) high, set in the cover of a silk-lined gilt-metal 'Palais-Royal' aide-memoire, the base centred with a mother-of-pearl plaque carved with acanthus leaves and scrolls and 'Souvenir', the final handwritten pages entitled 'Aux Mânes de ma bonne Mère' and 'A notre bon et cher petit Alfred', and printed calendar for 1819, with gilt-metal propelling pencil
Provenance
Greta Shield Heckett (1899-1976) Collection, Pittsburgh, Pa.; part I, Sotheby's, Monaco, 4 May 1977, lot 84.
Special Notice
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