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)
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)
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