THREE SWISS PAINTED ENAMEL PLAQUES

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THREE SWISS PAINTED ENAMEL PLAQUES
probably Geneva, 1770-1790

One circular, circa 1770, depicting an officer on horseback shooting a highwayman in a landscape (49 mm diam.); one oval, circa 1780, depicting two young ladies in classical costumes offering doves on an Altar of Love (41 mm high); plus another circular plaque, circa 1790, representing the precipitated farewell of a young gallant and his lady, in the manner of L. L. Boilly (58 mm wide); together with an oval mother-of-pearl plaque painted with King Frederick-William II of Prussia on horseback, circa 1790 (46 mm high) (4)

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