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Premier Auction - Session II

Sat, Sep 17, 2022 09:00AM EDT
Lot 1341

Pair of Portraits of Young Girls

Estimate: $4,000 - $6,000

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$3,000 $250
$5,000 $500
$10,000 $1,000
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$50,000 $5,000
$100,000 $10,000

(American/British School, 18th Century)

Girl in pink dress holding a book and cherries, signed lower left "TPT Pinxit 1772", oil on canvas, 30 x 25 in.; modern frame, 36 x 31-1/4 in.; Girl in Blue Dress with Parrot, unsigned, oil on canvas, 30 x 25 in.; modern wood frame, 35-3/4 x 30-3/4 in.

Provenance: Case Antiques, January 23, 2016; Collection of James and Marlin Phythyon (Sanders), Nashville, Tennessee, purchased in the 1960s from John E. Tyler of North Carolina; Estate of Joe Kindig, III

Condition

Pink dress: retains original stretcher, wax resin lined, crackle throughout, stretcher creases, minimal retouch, competent restoration; frame with light wear

Blue dress: retains original stretcher, wax resin lined, crackle throughout, minimal retouch, areas of crackle and minor paint loss in the string under the parrot, competent restoration; frame with light wear

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