135 A pair of miniature portraits of Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm (later King Friedrich Wilhelm II, 1744 - 1797) and his wife Elisabeth Christine Ulrike von Braunschweig - Wolfenbüttel.

 The portraits facing each other. The Crown Prince depicted in uniform with star and sash of the Order of the Black Eagle, in the background a tournament helmet and ermine. The princess sitting on a fauteuil in a courtly lace dress with ermine and sash of an order.

Both in contemporary, en suite worked bronze - gilded frames decorated with rocailles and crowns. With cut glass cover. Old paper covers on the reverse with handwritten inscriptions and remnants of lacquer seals as well as paper labels with numbers "78" and "79".

Beautiful, fine portrait miniatures of the future Royal Prussian ruling couple circa 1770.

In this quality and with the magnificent original frames of great rarity.

Each 93 x 71 mm o.r., the frames161 x 105 mm.

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