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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 957044, member: 5833&quot;]Because <a href="https://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auction-catalogues/aldridges-of-bath/catalogue-id-srald10102/lot-f198b6cc-6315-4c8d-93fc-aacc016dd08e" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auction-catalogues/aldridges-of-bath/catalogue-id-srald10102/lot-f198b6cc-6315-4c8d-93fc-aacc016dd08e" rel="nofollow">this just popped up</a>:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2019/srald10102/images/bcb0e849-c121-4b46-9b78-aacd013a99f1.jpg?w=540&amp;h=360" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>They term it ivory veneer, which is probably correct, although &#039;piano key&#039; is a good description of the appearance.</p><p><br /></p><p>On a topic that comes up sometimes in connection with hand painted miniatures,&nbsp; description of the larger of these says it is signed Le Brun.&nbsp; In this case, it is both the name of the original artist &amp; an identification of the subject, since it is a <a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Self-portrait_with_Her_Daughter_by_Elisabeth-Louise_Vig%C3%A9e_Le_Brun.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Self-portrait_with_Her_Daughter_by_Elisabeth-Louise_Vig%C3%A9e_Le_Brun.jpg" rel="nofollow">self-portrait by </a><font size="4"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Self-portrait_with_Her_Daughter_by_Elisabeth-Louise_Vig%C3%A9e_Le_Brun.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Self-portrait_with_Her_Daughter_by_Elisabeth-Louise_Vig%C3%A9e_Le_Brun.jpg" rel="nofollow">Elisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun</a>.&nbsp; I have seen both: miniatures with the name of the original author; ones signed by the miniaturist.</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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