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Miniature rectangular portrait of Charlotte Augusta Lane, half length, sitting in a wood side chair. She wears a black dress, pronounced white lace collar, gold locket and earrings. In an elaborate gilded frame with glass.
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Stamped in ink on a cut-out label on the ivory back are five Chinese characters and below that is: CHOW-KWA. On a jelly label in the upper frame back is: Charlotte Augusta Lane.
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Charlotte Augusta Lane
Chow-Kwa (Maker)
Shanghai, China
4 x 3 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.535.2
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