A late Victorian gilt brooch with an enamel portrait of Prince Albert Edward of Wales, signed and dated to reverse. - image-1
A late Victorian gilt brooch with an enamel portrait of Prince Albert Edward of Wales, signed and dated to reverse. - image-2
A late Victorian gilt brooch with an enamel portrait of Prince Albert Edward of Wales, signed and dated to reverse. - image-1A late Victorian gilt brooch with an enamel portrait of Prince Albert Edward of Wales, signed and dated to reverse. - image-2

Lot 19 Dα

A late Victorian gilt brooch with an enamel portrait of Prince Albert Edward of Wales, signed and dated to reverse.

Auction 1219 - overview Cologne
17.05.2023, 16:00 - Jewellery and Watches
Estimate: 600 € - 800 €
Result: 756 € (incl. premium)
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A late Victorian gilt brooch with an enamel portrait of Prince Albert Edward of Wales, signed and dated to reverse.

Printed enamel portrait after a photogravure, depicting the Prince in a general's uniform with military orders. In a chased gilt metal surround in the Louis XVI style set with pearls and coloured stones. Signed and dated on the counter-enamel: "Walery London 1884" and numbered "33963". H 7 cm. Weight 18.20 g.
Walery, London 1884.

Walery is the pseudonym of Count Stanislaw Julian Ostrorog (1830-1890), a native of Lithuania, and his son, who ran a successful portrait photography studio in London and created photogravures and enamel miniatures in transfer technique for the English court. Queen Victoria in particular valued the Count as a portraitist and the brooches he invented as royal gifts.