ID 887433
Lot 105 | A GILT AND POLYCHROME ENAMEL COPPER PLAQUE DEPICTING MARCUS CURTIUS
Estimate value
$ 150 000 – 250 000
LÉONARD LIMOUSIN (1505-1575/77), LIMOGES, 1544
signed and dated 'L.L. 1544' (lower left)
9 1/2 x 14 1/2 in. (24.3 x 37 cm.)
Provenance
Albert Edward Harry Meyer Archibald Primrose, 6th Earl of Rosebery, (1882-1974), Mentmore Towers.
His estate sale; Sotheby's, Mentmore, Buckinghamshire, 20 May 1977, lot 1106.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 27 November 1981, lot 52.
Literature
Mentmore, vol. II, p. 109, no. 19.
R. Pinkham, The Mentmore Limoges enamels, London, 1977, p. 241, fig. 1.
S. Baratte, Leonard Limousin au musée du Louvre, Paris, 1993, p. 72.
| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Enamel, Plastic |
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| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Enamel, Plastic |
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| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Address of auction |
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