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Lot 5001 ♣ - ibid102 Decorations and Various - online only - Wednesday, 03. April 2019, 03.00 PM

FRANCOIS-HIPPOLYTE DESBUISSON (ca.1740 - ca.1822),

end of the 18th century.
Portrait miniature of a mother holding a child on her lap, both dressed in white. Ivory, in a later metal frame with embossed, silver-gilt cover.
D 8 cm.
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Provenance: According to a typed note with the miniature, formerly owned by Baron Pierre de Coubertin.

- Probably restored at the finger, the dress of the mother, and the blue ribbon of the child.


CHF 200 / 300 | (€ 210 / 310)

Sold for CHF 1 750 (including buyer’s premium)
All information is subject to change.