A FRENCH GOLD AND ENAMEL-MOUNTED ROCK CRYSTAL DISH

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A FRENCH GOLD AND ENAMEL-MOUNTED ROCK CRYSTAL DISH
MID 19TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY BY CHARLES DURON

In the Renaissance style, on spreading oval foot with rim of white and blue enamel, the foot with spreading flutes and an enamel join, the knopped stem rising to a gold scrolling biforcated handle with blue, white and red enamel panels and applied with a female mask, joined to the stylized shell dish with blue and green enamel dolphin heads, the interior carved with an oval coat-of-arms, apparently unmarked--5 1/4in.(13.4cm.) high

拍品专文

Charles Duran exhibited gold-mounted objects in the Renaissance taste at the Exhibitions in London in 1862, and Paris in 1867, where they were received with considerable acclaim.