The Look of Love: Eye Miniatures from the Skier Collection –– Minneapolis Institute of Art https://new.artsmia.org/exhibition/the-look-of-love-eye-miniatures-from-the-skier-collection
May 15, 2014 – August 24, 2014 | Cargill Gallery | Free Exhibition Lovers’ eye miniatures are small-scale portraits of individual eyes set into various forms of jewelry dating from late 18th to early 19th-century England. A trend that began in the late 18th century with Britain’s young Prince of Wales (later George IV), clandestine lovers exchanged these customized tokens depicting each others’ eyes, as such a feature might only be recognized by persons of the most intimate familiarity
Purchased from Edith Weber, New York.