Rectangular, with opaque white rims, with a wreath of shaded orange poppy flowers on a stippled ground, the oval aperture containing an ivory portrait miniature of Princess Iréne Alexandrovna in a white dress with pale coral ribbons and sash, with an ivory back, the frame apparently unmarked, the miniature signed on the left border 'Zehngraf’
2¾ in. (7 cm.) high

Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna (1875-1960).
Anonymous sale; Christie's, Geneva, 30 November 1982, lot 258.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, Geneva, 15 May 1984, lot 304.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 11 June 2008, lot 464.

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Princess Iréne (1895-1970) was the daughter of Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna (1875-1960) and Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich (1866-1933). She was born in 1895 and in 1914 married Prince Felix Yusupov. She died in Paris in 1970.
Johannes Zehngraf (1857-1908) was a Danish miniaturist, who executed miniature portraits for the royal families of Europe during the nineteenth century. He was the chief miniaturist for Fabergé.