CIRCA 1792

细节

A pair of Sevres mythological blue and white biscuit rectangular plaques
Circa 1792
Decorated in white relief on a stained light-blue ground, the first with Le Jugement de Pâris, with Paris and Mercury beside a tree, Paris awarding the golden apple to Venus, with Juno and Minerva nearby and Cupid firing his arrow at Paris (minute chip to upper left corner); the second with L'Enlèvement d'Hélène, with Paris carrying Helen to a shore lead by Cupid with a torch, with a ship and three hand-maidens carrying boxes of jewels nearby (small area of restoration to hem of Paris's tunic), in modern wood frames
Approximately 7½ in (19 cm.) high x 11¾ in. (30 cm.) wide (2)

来源

Anon., sale Christie's, 14th June 1881, lots 94 (77 Gns. to Filpot) and 95 (84 Gns. to Filpot).

注意事项

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拍品专文

See Émile Bourgeois and Geo. Lechevallier-Chevignard, op. cit., p. 52, no. 372 for an illustration of The Judgement of Paris, and p. 41, no. 270 for an illustration of The Abduction of Helen. Also see the similar plaques, decorated with different mythological scenes, sold in these Rooms on 7th July 1997, lot 233.