Austria, Empire. A Miniature Portrait Of An Officer, C.1820 Auction Archive van Galen and Piet Heim

van Galen and Piet Heim and the frigates Johan Maurits van Nassau

Three bands of woven wine-red Waffenfarbe piping ring the cap

the hoist edge reinforced with a cotton twill reinforcement featuring a hollow channel and bearing an additional cord

For over a century after the European landing at Cape Town in the seventeenth century

original ribbon suspended from a pinback hanger inscribed "KRANZ-AUSZEICHNUNG")

Austria, Empire. A Miniature Portrait Of An Officer, C.1820 Auction Archive van Galen and Piet HeimA finely detailed, hand painted miniature watercolour portrait depicting a decorated Austrian Officer wearing the breast badges of two orders, in addition to a sheathed sword placed below his left arm. It is set within an oval gilded brass border, retaining an intact glass face, and in turn inset within a wooden frame featuring painted and lacquered tiles. The reverse features a removable backer secured in place with malleable bronze clips, while the