Lot Essay
See the plate painted in the same workshop sold in these Rooms on 14 November 1977, lot 124 with a scene related to the second plaque.
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FIRST QUARTER OF THE 18TH CENTURY
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Two Castelli oval plaques
First quarter of the 18th Century
Painted in the Grue workshop, the first with the Flight into Egypt, with the train of camels and Hebrews stretching beyond a small hillock, the foreground with Mary and Joseph riding donkeys (slight scratching to surface), the other with the interior of a barber's shop, the barber before a window with the tools of his trade suspended outside, tonsuring or extracting lice from a seated man in a sheep-skin jacket, surrounded by inquisitive onlookers and a dog (broken through and restuck), in oval black and parcel-gilt wood frames
11 in. (29.3 cm.) wide, the frame 14 in. (36.3 cm.) wide (2)
First quarter of the 18th Century
Painted in the Grue workshop, the first with the Flight into Egypt, with the train of camels and Hebrews stretching beyond a small hillock, the foreground with Mary and Joseph riding donkeys (slight scratching to surface), the other with the interior of a barber's shop, the barber before a window with the tools of his trade suspended outside, tonsuring or extracting lice from a seated man in a sheep-skin jacket, surrounded by inquisitive onlookers and a dog (broken through and restuck), in oval black and parcel-gilt wood frames
11 in. (29.3 cm.) wide, the frame 14 in. (36.3 cm.) wide (2)