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A SET OF SIX ENAMEL PLAQUES OF EMPERORS
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A SET OF SIX ENAMEL PLAQUES OF EMPERORS

LIMOGES, CIRCLE OF JACQUES I LAUDIN, 17TH CENTURY

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A SET OF SIX ENAMEL PLAQUES OF EMPERORS
LIMOGES, CIRCLE OF JACQUES I LAUDIN, 17TH CENTURY
Each with the emperor's name inscribed in gilt lettering around the edge of the plaque, and with associated gilt-wood frame; minor damages to the enamels and frames; minor restorations
3 in. (7.7 cm.) high, each (6)
Literature
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
P. Verdier, Catalogue of the Painted Enamels of the Renaissance, Baltimore, 1967, pp. 389-91, nos. 207-8.
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Lot Essay

A complete set of all twelve Caesars of identical design, also with each emperor named and numbered, decorate the feet of a pair of candlesticks in the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore (Verdier, loc. cit., with further examples). The heads are arranged so that the odd-numbered Caesars look to sinister, and the even-numbered ones look to dexter. The idea of grouping the twelve Caesars goes back at least to the time of Suetonius' lives of them, which did not shirk from dwelling on the moral weaknesses so powerfully brought to life in these likenesses.

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