IRISH SCHOOL (CIRCA 1775)

IRISH SCHOOL (CIRCA 1775)
Portrait miniature of an officier, wearing a red coat with white facings, silver epaulettes, white waistcoat, frilled chemise and stock. Wearing a white Maltese Cross on a blue ground from a black ribbon around his neck
Watercolour on ivory
Rose gold mount, the reverse glazed to reveal an elaborate hairwork scene of a crouching lamb beneath a tree in a landscape
Oval, 42mm high