Offered by Ouaiss Antiquités
Miniature on ivory presented in an oval frame. Miniature representing a young child in swaddling clothes and seated lace cap holding in his hands a fruit. On the reverse, an inscription reads "Davida Angélique Marguerite Schikler baronne de Schikler" 1801-1884. The Schickler family were powerful bankers of Basel origin, primarily funding princes of the Old German Empire. Davida Angélique Marguerite married Jean-Georges Schickler. She died in 1884 in Baden-Baden.
Miniature on ivory: 3.54in. (9 cm)/ W:2.75in. ( 7 cm)
With frame: 7.70in. (14.5cm) / 511in. (13 cm)