An ivory portrait miniature, French, circa 1790

A jewelled ivory portrait miniature, French, circa 1790,

oval, representing a young lady in a white dress with green waistband and matching headband in her dark curls, in a rose-cut diamond-set gold frame, the reverse enamelled in translucent blue applied with chased gold initial ‘K’ within ropetwist frame, fitted with a small suspension loop

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6.6 cm., 2 5/8 in. high