Sold for:
$1,140
$1,140
Painted Ivory Memorial Pendant, late 18th century, watercolor on ivory painted en grisaille depicting a young woman and two children in a landscape mourning beside an urn-topped monument inscribed "In Memory of Thos Polegreen Hewlings/Ob Sept 20 1793/AE 43," with colored background and applied hair on the foreground, the reverse with cut-out gilt-brass initials "CH" over a plait of hair, 2 x 1 1/2 in. , mounted in a oval gilt-brass pendant case, in a red Moroccan leather hinged case.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2013-10-27
