SAULINI. - Lot 188

Lot n° 188
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Result : 380EUR
SAULINI. - Lot 188
SAULINI. Oval silver box decorated with scales and pearls around the rim, the dish adorned with a shell cameo depicting a woman in profile to the left, her hair tied back in a bun. The cameo is signed SAULINI f(ecit), for Tommaso Saulini (1793-1864) or Luigi Saulini (1819-1883). The bottom of the box is engraved "Jessie Ramsay by Diaz C.L.W.M.K, Rome 1843". Length: 5.5 cm - Gross weight: 52.37 g. Jessie-Annie Ramsay (1828-1922) was a wealthy Scottish heiress who married Count Alexandre-Louis-Charles de Polignac (1821-1858) in 1853, enabling her to buy the Château de la Source in Olivet (now the seat of the University of Orléans), where she lived until 1894. Soon widowed, she remarried Charles Allanson Knight (1814-1879).
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