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18TH/19TH CENTURY
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A GROUP OF ENAMEL ITEMS
18TH/19TH CENTURY
The group comprises a large dish decorated to the interior with a European-inspired landscape with elegantly dressed ladies and gentleman reclining on the bough of a pine tree below a winged cherub, all enclosed within a floral border, the cavetto decorated with mythical beasts in shaped cartouches reserved on an hexagonal ground, the base decorated with two writhing dragons above crashing waves with a further band of butterflies, insects and flowers, wood stand; two hexagonal boxes and covers with silk stands, the covers each decorated with flowers on a scrolling foltate design and the sides with alternating shaped cartouches enclosing figurative, landscape and floral designs; two long handled ewers decorated to the sides with rectangular panels enclosing archaic bronzes with auspicious emblems; four quatrelobed dishes decorated with figurative scenes.
The dish 11. in. (28 cm.) diam. (9)
18TH/19TH CENTURY
The group comprises a large dish decorated to the interior with a European-inspired landscape with elegantly dressed ladies and gentleman reclining on the bough of a pine tree below a winged cherub, all enclosed within a floral border, the cavetto decorated with mythical beasts in shaped cartouches reserved on an hexagonal ground, the base decorated with two writhing dragons above crashing waves with a further band of butterflies, insects and flowers, wood stand; two hexagonal boxes and covers with silk stands, the covers each decorated with flowers on a scrolling foltate design and the sides with alternating shaped cartouches enclosing figurative, landscape and floral designs; two long handled ewers decorated to the sides with rectangular panels enclosing archaic bronzes with auspicious emblems; four quatrelobed dishes decorated with figurative scenes.
The dish 11. in. (28 cm.) diam. (9)
Provenance
From the collection of Sir William Seeds KCMG (1882-1973)
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