SOLD Early 19th Century Miniature Portrait of Lovely Woman in White and Blue, Presumed French black glass pin cube inscribed as a gift to

inscribed as a gift to a Miss Charlotte Wetherbee from her instructress

twenty years or so later

a majority executed in white thread

Links are about 1 7/8" long each

printed squares with copyright info on reverse

SOLD Early 19th Century Miniature Portrait of Lovely Woman in White and Blue, Presumed French black glass pin cube inscribed as a gift toI am not a great expert on portrait miniatures, but am pretty certain this one, of a lovely young woman in empire gown and high ruffled collar, is French, c 1810s 20s. Curiously, it seems as if the painter preferred painting patterned fabric to rendering a hand at bottom, though what looks like the edge of a sleeve cuff peeks out to the right, so perhaps there is a story there maybe our sitter lost a hand, who knows? There is a little damage loss to