Lot Essay
For the print by Joseph Wagner see J. Pluis, Bijbeltegels, Münster, 1994, p. 292, ill. 565 and p. 594.
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CIRCA 1740
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A Delft doré shaped plaque of the Finding of Moses
Circa 1740
Gilt and painted in colours with the biblical scene (Ex.2:5-6) of Moses found by the Pharaoh's daughter after a print by Joseph Wagner, (Venice 1764), after Jacopo Amigoni (1675-1752), depicting the Pharaoh's daughter flanked by a child servant and a maiden holding an umbrella, another maiden bending forward to the infant Moses in a basket floating in the river, the shaped raised border with a band of shells flanked by foliage, diaperwork and scrolls, pierced with an aperture to the top
32 cm. high, 36.5 cm. wide
See illustration on the frontcover
Circa 1740
Gilt and painted in colours with the biblical scene (Ex.2:5-6) of Moses found by the Pharaoh's daughter after a print by Joseph Wagner, (Venice 1764), after Jacopo Amigoni (1675-1752), depicting the Pharaoh's daughter flanked by a child servant and a maiden holding an umbrella, another maiden bending forward to the infant Moses in a basket floating in the river, the shaped raised border with a band of shells flanked by foliage, diaperwork and scrolls, pierced with an aperture to the top
32 cm. high, 36.5 cm. wide
See illustration on the frontcover
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