A PORTRAIT MINIATURE OF A GENTLEMAN

Wearing a blue coat, white waistcoat, chemise, stock and tied cravat, his hair powdered, watercolour on ivory, signed HB, in a gold frame with border and suspension loop set with pearls, the reverse with blue glass surrounding an aperture, glazed to reveal a wheat sheaf of hair

Oval 7.1cm x 5.5cm

Condition report:

- Slightly warped with no adverse cracking
- Painting probably refreshed
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- Glass cover is loose and detaches from the frame require re-fixing
- Several seed pearls probably replaced and sit higher than others
- Two cracks to the blue glass reverse and a swirl-like inclusion beneath the glass
- Some loose pearls inside locket compartment