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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