Georgian Miniature Matrimony Painting On Ivory Sepia Pendant Of Love By Ramage

Approx. 1 1/4 inches in diameter.

Fabulous painting of a woman leaning on a cage with a pair of birds.

Allegorical painting of a Matrimony with the birds signifying a bride and a groom. In a cage signifying a union which will last forever.

Overhead is a tree decorated with macerated hair also a significance of a love that cannot die.

Blue sky with clouds and poplars in the distance.

Blue enamel and gold framing on an 18 kt gold framed pendant with glass and hanger.

Back lists the painting by Ramage. And a similar painting by John Ramage can be seen in the Book Love and Loss by Robin Jaffee Frank.

Information gives the artist as John Ramage..one of the best Minature artists of this kind working in New York in the 1770 to 1790's. He never signed his paintings ...He is a listed artist and his works regularly sell in the thousands.

Rare and fabulous work...purchased from a significiant East Coast collection of Miniatures

No chips or cracks and wonderful color.