The Pohl-Ströher Collection of Portrait Miniatures, Part III

The Pohl-Ströher Collection of Portrait Miniatures, Part III

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 248. CONTINENTAL SCHOOL, CIRCA 1720 | PORTRAIT OF PRINCESS MAGDALENA AUGUSTA OF ANHALT-ZERBST, DUCHESS OF SAXONY-GOTHA ALTENBURG (1679-1740).

CONTINENTAL SCHOOL, CIRCA 1720 | PORTRAIT OF PRINCESS MAGDALENA AUGUSTA OF ANHALT-ZERBST, DUCHESS OF SAXONY-GOTHA ALTENBURG (1679-1740)

Auction Closed

December 5, 07:06 PM GMT

Estimate

2,000 - 3,000 GBP

Lot Details

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CONTINENTAL SCHOOL, CIRCA 1720

PORTRAIT OF PRINCESS MAGDALENA AUGUSTA OF ANHALT-ZERBST, DUCHESS OF SAXONY-GOTHA ALTENBURG (1679-1740)


Watercolour and bodycolour on vellum, gold and silver gilt frame, set with diamonds

24 by 20 mm.

Sale, London, Sotheby's, 4 June 1973, lot 82;

sale, New York, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 4-5 December 1979, lot 670;

with Edwin Bucher, Trogen

The sitter was the maternal grandmother of King George III.