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Miniature Portrait of King Karl X Gustav of Sweden (1622-1660), c. 1650.

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Oval gouche by Alexander Cooper (1605? -1660). Chest image, phase v, armor, white collar, gray-blue background. Involved under glass with facade, facet ground edge. Smooth perception of gold, on the back engraved name cipher C G X, punched oval ring: X-ray off on the back gilded royal crown of silver, engraved details on the back, on the front lines for four larger and thirteen smaller stones, in the pins remains of black wax. On the back of the cross on the crown’s apple a ring.
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Title: Miniature Portrait of King Karl X Gustav of Sweden (1622-1660), c. 1650.
Description:
Oval gouche by Alexander Cooper (1605? -1660).
Chest image, phase v, armor, white collar, gray-blue background.
Involved under glass with facade, facet ground edge.
Smooth perception of gold, on the back engraved name cipher C G X, punched oval ring: X-ray off on the back gilded royal crown of silver, engraved details on the back, on the front lines for four larger and thirteen smaller stones, in the pins remains of black wax.
On the back of the cross on the crown’s apple a ring.

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