PRUSSIAN SCHOOL CIRCA 1765 Lot n° 16

PRUSSIAN SCHOOL CIRCA 1765 PRUSSIAN SCHOOL CIRCA 1765 A pair of portrait miniatures of Ahasverus Henri Conte de Lehndorff and Marie de Haefeler, Contesse de Lehndorff; he wearing light brown coat trimmed with ermine, frilled chemise and white stock, wearing a breast star and Prussian Order, his hair powdered and worn en queue; she wearing décolleté white dress with lace underslip trimmed with flowers, a lace choker trimmed with flowers and flowers adorning her powdered upswept hair both watercolour on ivory gilt-metal frames surmounted by paste set crowns, engraved on the reverse with sitter's details: Ahasverus Henri Conte de Lehndorff a Sa chere Soeur aineé de Podewils; Marie de Haeseler Mariee Contesse de Lehndorff ma chere Belle Soeur Aō 1765 ovals, 40 mm (1 1/2 in) high (2)