MID-16TH CENTURY, ATTRIBUTED TO JEAN PNICAUD
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A PAIR OF LIMOGES ENAMEL OVAL VASE-SHAPED SALT-CELLARS
Mid-16th Century, Attributed to Jean Pnicaud
Painted in grisaille heightened with gold on a dark blue ground, the indentations on the tops decorated with portraits of Juno and Athena, the sides depicting the Temptation and the Fall of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, and a patriarch making a sacrifice to God the Father with an array of exotic beasts and birds, the first with a paper label 'MAGNIAC COLLECTION 388'
3in. (9cm.) high (2)
Mid-16th Century, Attributed to Jean Pnicaud
Painted in grisaille heightened with gold on a dark blue ground, the indentations on the tops decorated with portraits of Juno and Athena, the sides depicting the Temptation and the Fall of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, and a patriarch making a sacrifice to God the Father with an array of exotic beasts and birds, the first with a paper label 'MAGNIAC COLLECTION 388'
3in. (9cm.) high (2)
Provenance
Hollingworth Magniac Collection, Colworth, Bedfordshire; Sold Christie's, 2-4 July 1892, no. 388 (290 gns. to Durlacher)
Exhibited
London, Special Exhibition of Works of Art of the Medieval, Renaissance and more recent periods on loan at the South Kensington Museum, (cat. by J. C. Robinson) June 1892, p. 164, cat. nos. 1,737 and 1738