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8 June 2005, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £2,400 inc. premium
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Find your local specialistA Battersea enamel portrait plaque of the Duke of Cumberland
circa 1755
oval, transfer-printed in puce monochrome by Simon Francis Ravenet with a profile portrait of William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, in a gilt metal frame, 8.7cm length of plaque (a few fine cracks)
oval, transfer-printed in puce monochrome by Simon Francis Ravenet with a profile portrait of William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, in a gilt metal frame, 8.7cm length of plaque (a few fine cracks)
Footnotes
Another example of this rare plaque is illustrated by Therle and Bernard Hughes, English Painted Enamels, fig. 2, p. 18, and another is in the Schreiber Collection in the Victoria and Albert Museum, see Egan Mew, Battersea Enamels, fig. 3, no. 1. A companion plaque depicting Frederick, Prince of Wales, in an identical frame was sold in these rooms, 6th June 2001, lot 212
