Love Token

John Miers

£275

This teeny circular locket showing a gentleman in a bound pigtail wig and frilled chemise would have been worn by the sitter’s wife or sweetheart. Painted on ivory without gold embellishment, it is signed Miers under the bust-line and is set in a locket with a seed pearl surround and hanger with brown hair under bevelled glass on the reverse.

Ivory Exemption Ref.: TDM61JNC

Item Ref. TC536

Size: 22mm diam. + hanger

Provenance: Acquired for the Christie Collection from Spiro in Feb. 1944

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