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18th Century French Devotional Shadow Box with Nevers Glass Figures

About the Item

A shadowbox frame, densely filled with scrolls and ornaments of rolled paper, gilt and pigmented, the central medallion showing the kneeling figure of a Benedictine monk, a dog and a swan, all of glass and produced at Nevers, the monogram MA with a crown above, another crown below, and also incorporating fragments, each with a label for a Martyr Saint, the reverse applied with a printed label ECCLESIA METROPOLITANA AQUENSIS. Likely made at Aix en Provence, France
  • Creator:
    Nevers (Maker)
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 32 in (81.28 cm)Width: 40 in (101.6 cm)Depth: 5 in (12.7 cm)
  • Materials and Techniques:
  • Place of Origin:
  • Period:
    Late 18th Century
  • Date of Manufacture:
    circa 1780
  • Condition:
    The Nevers dog figure has become unhinged from it's base and so does move when the frame is moved.
  • Seller Location:
    Maidstone, GB
  • Reference Number:
    Seller: 30291stDibs: LU8971236437792
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