A pair of fine Renaissance style Limoges enamel oval chargers

ONE AFTER PIERRE REYMOND, CIRCA 1870

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A pair of fine Renaissance style Limoges enamel oval chargers
One after Pierre Reymond, Circa 1870
Each decorated to the centre with a scene from the Old Testament, one depicting Abraham Returning the Goods of the King of Sodom, the other possibly The Judgement of Moses, each with the number 6 to the bottom right side, the first with a border decorated with a procession of half human half beasts and mythical animals, with a cartouche to the top inscribed GENESE XIIII, the second with a border of dolphin-riding and horn-blowing putti and with four portrait medallions, the reverse of the former decorated with a figure of Hercules below a laurel-garlanded canopy, flanked by grotesque beasts, the latter with a scrolled cartouches centred by a laurel-garlanded bearded mask, flanked by a pair of attendant females
One: 19 7/8in. x 15½in. (50.4cm. x 39.3cm.); The other: 19½in. x 15½in. (49.5cm. x 39.3cm.) (2)

Lot Essay

The charger illustrated at the top of the facing page, depicting the story of Abraham returning the Goods of the King of Sodom from Genesis 14:22-24, is a copy of a platter dating from 1577 by the celebrated Limoges enamellist, Pierre Reymond, formerly in the collection of J. Pierpont Morgan, later in the William Randolph Hearst Collection and now in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (see S. L. Caroselli, The Painted Enamels of Limoges - A Catalogue of the Collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LACMA, 1993, pp. 128-131, cat. 19).

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