A PAIR OF RECTANGULAR ENAMEL PLAQUES REPRESENTING AIR AND WATER...
Painted in grisaille with gold highlights; one inscribed '.AER.' and signed with initials '.I.L.', the other inscribed '.AQVA.'; the reverse inscribed '...Emaillieur...' and '.Laudin.Emaillieur./.a.Limoges./.I.L.', respectively; each in later parcel-gilt and ebonised wooden frames inscribed '371' and '370'
7 x 6 in. (18 x 15.2 cm.), the plaques
95⁄8 x 83⁄8 in. (24.4 x 21.2 cm.), framed
Provenance
Christie's, London, 13 June, 2002, lot 150.
Literature
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
S. Caroselli, The Painted Enamels of Limoges - A Catalogue of the Collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 1993, no. 44, pp. 200-203.
Lot Essay
Jacques I Laudin was from a dynasty of enamellers who were active in Limoges in the 17th and 18th centuries. The images used on the enamels here are after engravings of the Four Elements by Jacques de Gheyn II (1565-1629), c. 1588; the peasant figure with birds was also used by Laudin in the well of a two-handled bowl in the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (loc. cit.)
Painted in grisaille with gold highlights; one inscribed '.AER.' and signed with initials '.I.L.', the other inscribed '.AQVA.'; the reverse inscribed '...Emaillieur...' and '.Laudin.Emaillieur./.a.Limoges./.I.L.', respectively; each in later parcel-gilt and ebonised wooden frames inscribed '371' and '370'
7 x 6 in. (18 x 15.2 cm.), the plaques
95⁄8 x 83⁄8 in. (24.4 x 21.2 cm.), framed
Provenance
Christie's, London, 13 June, 2002, lot 150.
Literature
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
S. Caroselli, The Painted Enamels of Limoges - A Catalogue of the Collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 1993, no. 44, pp. 200-203.
Lot Essay
Jacques I Laudin was from a dynasty of enamellers who were active in Limoges in the 17th and 18th centuries. The images used on the enamels here are after engravings of the Four Elements by Jacques de Gheyn II (1565-1629), c. 1588; the peasant figure with birds was also used by Laudin in the well of a two-handled bowl in the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (loc. cit.)
