A PAIR OF LOUIS SOLON PÂTE-SUR-PÂTE OLIVE-GREEN RECTANGULAR PLAQUES EMBLEMATIC OF DAWN AND DUSK
Circa 1880, signed L. Solon
Each finely painted and hand tooled in white slip with a diaphanously draped nymph flanked by putti surrounded by a field of gilt stars, one with a putto blowing a trumpet heralding the dawn of a new day, his companion holding a nest of newly hatched chicks and a blossoming branch; the other with a putto bearing a torch into the midnight sky, his sleeping companion being sprinkled with star-dust
14¼ x 10¼in. (36 x 26cm.), within ebonized black wood frames (2)
A PAIR OF LOUIS SOLON PÂTE-SUR-PÂTE OLIVE-GREEN RECTANGULAR PLAQUES EMBLEMATIC OF DAWN AND DUSK
Circa 1880, signed L. Solon
Each finely painted and hand tooled in white slip with a diaphanously draped nymph flanked by putti surrounded by a field of gilt stars, one with a putto blowing a trumpet heralding the dawn of a new day, his companion holding a nest of newly hatched chicks and a blossoming branch; the other with a putto bearing a torch into the midnight sky, his sleeping companion being sprinkled with star-dust
14¼ x 10¼in. (36 x 26cm.), within ebonized black wood frames (2)
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