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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Blue Cherry Antiques, post: 359261, member: 7503&quot;]Hi everyone, I&#039;m Chris from Blue Cherry Antiques.</p><p><br /></p><p>I wondered why I&#039;d got a lot of traffic from a random source, and tracked it back to here - that&#039;s my item website in the OP.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thought I would fill in a few blanks for people since I&#039;m here:</p><p><br /></p><p>The style of gilding is called vermiform (wormlike).</p><p><br /></p><p>The painting is likely a commission and so of someone&#039;s child.&nbsp; More often than not these are family portraits, and of course you would need to be reasonably wealthy to order one.</p><p><br /></p><p>Is it Moser?&nbsp; It&#039;s very hard to say, unless you find one with the exact gilding etc with the Moser signature it is going to be very hard to prove.&nbsp; They were made by many factories, so most won&#039;t be Moser.</p><p><br /></p><p>The gilt wear - this is quite normal, the gilding can be very soft compared to the enamels fired into the vignette so they wear first.</p><p><br /></p><p>The stopper - as the collar is gilded it would not have had a silver cap.&nbsp; Originally it would have had a facet cut stopper, usually in the same colour as the body, and this would be gilded in the same style.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hope that helps you all.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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