Reserved - Lover's Eye Painting on a Flow Blue Crescent Dish

Lover's Eye miniature paintings were popular in the late 18th and early 19th centuries (Georgian and Regency periods), and were frequently incorporated in rings and lockets. This is a larger, modern version in oil, on an antique, 19th-century English flow blue crescent or paisley dish, with cobalt blue underglaze designs and gilt embellishments. By Hanley and J&G Meakin, England, in the Wentworth pattern. 6.5"x3.75"