A RARE BIBLICAL SUBJECT CHARGER

CIRCA 1740

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A RARE BIBLICAL SUBJECT CHARGER
Circa 1740
Painted in colors with the Archangel Michael holding the prone Lucifer down with a gilt rope and a foot on his chest, the Devil portrayed with shaggy gray hair and horns with flames issuing from his body, Michael with shaded blue wings, laced sandals and a skirt of feathers, holding three arrows aloft
15 1/8in. (38.2cm.) diam.

拍品專文

Howard & Ayers. op. cit., illustrate a plate from the Mottahedeh collection (sold Sotheby's New York, 19 October 2000, lot 240) and quote Revelations XII, 7-9 as its possible source: And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon...And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil...". Another plate was in the Hervouet collection, op. cit., p. 272 and sold Sotheby's London, 27 October 1970, lot 155