Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces
Geneva, May 13, 2012
LOT 233
SIGNED & DATED ENAMEL PORTRAIT MINIATURE ?LA TENTATRICE? William Hopkins Craft (c. 1740 - c. 1805). Dated 1782. Extremely fine and rare painted on enamel plaque with brooch fitting. To be sold without reserve
CHF 2,000 - 4,000
USD 2,200 - 4,500 / EUR 1,700 - 3,300
Sold: CHF 3,500
Oval, enamel on copper, a young Lady, reclining against a pillow beneath green drapery, wearing white sheer muslin chemise with pale yellow stripes, cream unfastened robe with lace cuffs, cream lace bonnet dressed with a wide blue ribbon tied beneath her chin. Signed on the counter-enamel and dated Wm. Craft./fect/ 1782, gilt-metal mount with brooch pin attachment. Dim. 64 x 54mm. In very good condition
