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<p>[QUOTE="mirana, post: 7826753, member: 79705"]Your Regency gent looks like watercolor stippling on ivory. He also looks like he's had pigment fading from UV exposure...I've not seen one created in blues like this, but I've seen a lot of pieces where the reds have fled. That loss and the newer looking housing make me think he might be a print. I wish I could see him more closely. I personally would take him apart because it looks fairly easy and miniature paintings sometime have fun backing ephemera bits.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here's a fun <a href="https://www.gibbesmuseum.org/miniatures/about/making-a-miniature/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.gibbesmuseum.org/miniatures/about/making-a-miniature/" rel="nofollow">page from the Gibbes Museum</a> showing close-ups of watercolor on ivory techniques, and what these pieces look like disassembled.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="mirana, post: 7826753, member: 79705"]Your Regency gent looks like watercolor stippling on ivory. He also looks like he's had pigment fading from UV exposure...I've not seen one created in blues like this, but I've seen a lot of pieces where the reds have fled. That loss and the newer looking housing make me think he might be a print. I wish I could see him more closely. I personally would take him apart because it looks fairly easy and miniature paintings sometime have fun backing ephemera bits. Here's a fun [URL='https://www.gibbesmuseum.org/miniatures/about/making-a-miniature/']page from the Gibbes Museum[/URL] showing close-ups of watercolor on ivory techniques, and what these pieces look like disassembled.[/QUOTE]
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