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Medium
Watercolour on vellum laid on a playing card, in a turned ivory box
Size
4.6 × 4.6 cm
Collection
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Inventory
P.153:1, 2-1910
Period
London, 1532–1543
Sitter
Anne of Cleves
Attribution
Hans Holbein the Younger

The miniature is set in a contemporary ivory box whose lid is carved as a Tudor rose.

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2500 × 1497 px. Photograph: public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Record: Wikidata.

Round portrait miniature of Anne of Cleves facing forward in a jewelled gold headdress and red gown with layered gold chains, on blue, set in a turned ivory box shown beside its lid carved as a rose.