Miniature rectangular portrait of Ann Eliza Lane, half length, sitting in a wood side chair. She wears a black dress, pronounced white lace collar and long earrings. In an elaborate gilded frame with glass.
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ivory (tooth component)
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portraits
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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 ajelly label in the upper frame back is: Ann Eliza Lane [Miss Moore's Grandmother].
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
1991.353.3
Ann Eliza Lane
Chow-Kwa (Maker)
Shanghai, China
8 x 7 1/8 x 7/8 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.535.3
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