An Officer, facing left in scarlet coat with blue collar, gold epaulettes, white waistcoat and frilled cravat, powdered hair en queue
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FRENCH SCHOOL, CIRCA 1780
An Officer, facing left in scarlet coat with blue collar, gold epaulettes, white waistcoat and frilled cravat, powdered hair en queue
2 3/8in. (61mm.) diam., inset in the cover of a gold mounted blond tortoiseshell bonbonnière decorated with scale work pattern in two colour gold piqué, Paris 1787, marked with charge and discharge hallmarks of Henri Clavel, maker's mark indistinct
An Officer, facing left in scarlet coat with blue collar, gold epaulettes, white waistcoat and frilled cravat, powdered hair en queue
2 3/8in. (61mm.) diam., inset in the cover of a gold mounted blond tortoiseshell bonbonnière decorated with scale work pattern in two colour gold piqué, Paris 1787, marked with charge and discharge hallmarks of Henri Clavel, maker's mark indistinct