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A VIENNA-STYLE DISH painted with a mythological scene of two maidens standing before a seated youth in an interior, entitled Paris and Helena, within a gilt surround and a green border reserved with broad pink fan-shaped cartouches enclosing blue diamond-shaped medallions flanked by gilt foliage, divided by small claret cartouches enriched with gilt landscape vignettes (minute flakes to enamel at rim and slight wear to gilding); and another dish painted with three figures in an interior, entitled Campaspe et Genius, within a similar border (slight wear to gilding), both with blue beehive mark and black script, circa 1880
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A VIENNA-STYLE DISH painted with a mythological scene of two maidens standing before a seated youth in an interior, entitled Paris and Helena, within a gilt surround and a green border reserved with broad pink fan-shaped cartouches enclosing blue diamond-shaped medallions flanked by gilt foliage, divided by small claret cartouches enriched with gilt landscape vignettes (minute flakes to enamel at rim and slight wear to gilding); and another dish painted with three figures in an interior, entitled Campaspe et Genius, within a similar border (slight wear to gilding), both with blue beehive mark and black script, circa 1880
9½in. (24cm.) diam. (2)
9½in. (24cm.) diam. (2)