Limoges attributed to Jean-Baptiste POYLLEVET, Late 17th or early 18th...

Limoges attributed to Jean-Baptiste POYLLEVET, Late 17th or early 18th century.
" Sainte Marie Madeleine ".
Rectangular plate, with painted polychrome enamel decoration and gold highlights, the subject in an oval medallion.
Counter-enamel in translucent flux with bluish enamels.
Two original fixing holes.
Dim 17 x 12 cm.
Shocks and lacks in the corners.
Saint Mary Magdalene is represented as a penitent, with the nimbus
radiating, in front of a cave with vanities. In the background
a landscape with trees.
The enamelled spandrels, in high relief, represent
baskets of fruit, typical of Poyllevet's work.
The subject is similar to two plaques by Jean-Baptiste
POYLLEVET , one in the Museum of Fine Arts in LIMOGES (inv. 167), the other in the Museum of Fine Arts in NANTES.
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