TWO GRISAILLE AND GILT ARMORIAL MARRIAGE PLATES
TWO GRISAILLE AND GILT ARMORIAL MARRIAGE PLATES

CIRCA 1735

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TWO GRISAILLE AND GILT ARMORIAL MARRIAGE PLATES
Circa 1735
Each showing a wedding scene filled with allegorical figures and set in a domed pavilion flanked by garland-entwined columns surmounted by coats-of-arms, one with the arms of Nicolas Geelvinck, later mayor of Amsterdam, and Johanna Jacoba Graafland, who married in 1729, and the other with the arms of the Beaumont and Backus families of Dordrecht, all within gilt strapwork borders
9 and 9.1/8in. (22.9 and 23.2cm.) diam. (2)