Antique c.1700s Signed Portrait Miniature, Beautiful Girl with Pet Bird on String, in Case Betjenmann what you would expect from

what you would expect from their age and light use but nothing that couldn't be addressed by a quick wheel buffing

perhaps owing to our humidity changes

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elevated the national interest in anything exotic and these arise from that era

so it is subject to cracking or chips

Antique c.1700s Signed Portrait Miniature, Beautiful Girl with Pet Bird on String, in Case Betjenmann what you would expect fromBe still my heart! One of my favorites, this is a mid 1700s portrait miniature or miniature painting, Louis XV era, a young and beautiful Courtier playing with her pet bird, tethered on a ribbon so it can fly. The delight in her face seems a momentary glimpse of her joy, and not a simple thing for an artist to capture so well. There is a signature to the upper left, on that blue drapery, but I cannot make it out. The manner is so "Boucher", one almost