Antique HP French Portrait Miniature, Blond Child, Table Snuff Box, c.1820-40 gouache There is some age wear

There is some age wear or fading to the gold on the bowls but enough to have the visual appeal

quite literally

The larger rounded corner rectangular wooden frame and silk velvet mat are a much later

I had to greatly enlarge it to be able to see it at all

25" in on a slight diagonal which ends before her neckline

Antique HP French Portrait Miniature, Blond Child, Table Snuff Box, c.1820-40 gouache There is some age wearA beautiful blond and blue eyed child's portrait in miniature, set into the lid of a large table snuff box. She's pretty, straight forward in gaze and dressed in a shirred bodice blue gown with puff sleeves. Perhaps the child of the artist. Portrait miniatures of children are quite rare, comparatively, and sometimes remain as memento of a child who was lost to illness in young years. Measurements always appear also on our photos. This box is a larger