A DUTCH DELFT DORE PLAQUE OF THE FINDING OF MOSES...
Gilt and painted in colors with the biblical scene (Ex.2:5-6) of Moses found by the Pharaoh's daughter after a print by Joseph Wagner (1706 - 1780), after Jacopo Amigoni (1675-1752), depicting the Pharaoh's daughter attended by a child and a maiden holding an umbrella, another maiden bending forward to retrieve the infant Moses from the river, the shaped raised border with a band of shells flanked by foliage, diaperwork and scrolls, pierced with an aperture to the top
141⁄8 in. (35.8 cm.) wide
Provenance
Art Céramique Ancien Nicolier, 7 Quai Voltaire, Paris (sticker).
Anonymous sale; Christie's, Amsterdam, 15 May 2002, lot 437.
Lot Essay
For the 1745 engraving by Joseph Wagner that the present plaque is based upon, see the example in the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., accession no. 1984.84.1.
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Gilt and painted in colors with the biblical scene (Ex.2:5-6) of Moses found by the Pharaoh's daughter after a print by Joseph Wagner (1706 - 1780), after Jacopo Amigoni (1675-1752), depicting the Pharaoh's daughter attended by a child and a maiden holding an umbrella, another maiden bending forward to retrieve the infant Moses from the river, the shaped raised border with a band of shells flanked by foliage, diaperwork and scrolls, pierced with an aperture to the top
141⁄8 in. (35.8 cm.) wide
Provenance
Art Céramique Ancien Nicolier, 7 Quai Voltaire, Paris (sticker).
Anonymous sale; Christie's, Amsterdam, 15 May 2002, lot 437.
Lot Essay
For the 1745 engraving by Joseph Wagner that the present plaque is based upon, see the example in the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., accession no. 1984.84.1.
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Time, Location
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