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A Private Collection of English Enamels
Lot 159

A rare pair of Birmingham enamel plaques, circa 1755

27 November 2024, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A rare pair of Birmingham enamel plaques, circa 1755

Of rectangular form, faintly printed in outline and delicately hand-coloured, one with the 'Fortune Teller No 1' or 'Tea Leaves Fortune Teller', a group of four ladies around a table in a classical garden, attended by an old woman and a man looking on, the other with the 'Shepherd Lovers', the lovers in a rural landscape with a windmill in the distance, both scenes with two swimming swans in the foreground, gilt metal frames and hanging loops, 11.5cm x 13.2cm including frames and suspension loops (2)

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Provenance
The Hon. Nellie Ionides Collection
Thence by descent

The 'Fortune Teller' is decorated after a print by Robert Hancock after Boitard. Another example is illustrated by Cyril Cook, The Life and Work of Robert Hancock (1948), Item 38 and Bernard Watney and R J Charleston, 'Petitions for Patents', ECC Trans, Vol.6, Pt.2 (1966), pl.90. The 'Shepherd Lovers' is also after Boitard. See Cook (1948), Item 99 and Egan Mew, Battersea Enamels (1926), fig.29 for the same subject printed on a Battersea enamel snuff box. The 'Shepherd Lovers' plaque is illustrated by Therle and Bernard Hughes, English Painted Enamels (1951), pl.I (left).

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