Antique French Portrait Miniature, Handsome Young Blond Man in Blue Coat, c.1790 to 1829 Vernette Tiny pieces of colored glass

Tiny pieces of colored glass

natural grain flaws in the horn though and not damage

This is one of two antique to vintage Italian cameo pieces that we're adding today

Were I picky

and might well have been commissions from same - note the mother of pearl rounds inlaid

Antique French Portrait Miniature, Handsome Young Blond Man in Blue Coat, c.1790 to 1829 Vernette Tiny pieces of colored glassA beautiful green eyed blond boy, young man, c. 1810, I think, but he could be as early as c. 1790. One can fairly count on him being a student during the student uprisings, and yet his haircut might be considered the Royalist 'guillotine cut' or 'Titus', which was a fashion sported by those whose family or leaders met the guillotine in The Terror, c. 1770s. Blonds aren't often found. These frames date that early and aspects of his dress and hair