Box with portrait of a young girl with the initials DE

Miniature attributed to Pierre-Adolphe Hall Swedish

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The miniature is set in a sweetmeat box of rock crystal with two-color gold mounts. It has seven marks, including an illegible maker’s mark and the Paris mark for 1775–76. On the reverse of the miniature is a plaque with the monogram DE.

Richard Allen and Edwin Boucher have attributed this miniature to Peter Adolf Hall, an attribution accepted by Bodo Hofstetter but not by Pierrette Jean-Richard.

Box with portrait of a young girl with the initials DE, Miniature attributed to Pierre-Adolphe Hall (Swedish (active Paris), 1739–1793), Glass, gold; ivory laid on card, French, Paris

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Box with portrait of a young girl with the initials DE, Miniature attributed to Pierre-Adolphe Hall (Swedish (active Paris), 1739–1793), Glass, gold; ivory laid on card, French, Paris
Box with portrait of a young girl with the initials DE, Miniature attributed to Pierre-Adolphe Hall (Swedish (active Paris), 1739–1793), Glass, gold; ivory laid on card, French, Paris

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