Pair of framed antique circular porcelain portrait plaques

These elegant enamel plaques was painted in Limoges, a town in the south-west of France. While Limoges was highly regarded for its painted enamel wares in the 15th Century, in the following periods there was a decline in production. In the mid-19th Century, however, items like this pair began to be created, reviving the techniques of enamel painting that were perfected in the medieval period. The plaques depict two women, both with wavy blonde shoulder-length hair, and similar facial features. The women may be sisters, possibly even twins. One woman wears a pale pink dress...

Each Capodimonte porcelain plaque in this pair portrays a famous episode from Roman history: The Rape of the Sabines. The scene on each pl...

A fine Berlin (K.P.M) Porcelain rectangular plaque The Artist, late 19th century With a group of figures in an artist studio Impressed sceptre and K.P.M. mark, in a giltwood fram...

Each charger depicting a not-unwilling maiden being carried off by centaurs. Signed in Greek and Cyrillic by artist G. Landgraf. As stated in the Royal ...