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Auction Location:
Melbourne
Date:
25-Mar-2024
Lot No.
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Description:
A Royal Worcester porcelain 'Limoges Enamel' decorated plaque, early 1870s, the enamel decoration by Thomas John Bott, oval and convex, cobalt blue ground, finely decorated in white enamel with a scene of a young fisherman and siren embracing, signed 'Tj Bott.' lower right, mounted in an antique sanded and gilt frame (the reverse of the plaque presently concealed but believed to be unmarked as to manufacture), 20 x 15 cm, oval. Other notes: possibly inspired by Lord Frederic Leighton's 1858 painting 'The fisherman and the Syren'.. Condition: the panel: inspection under Uv light presents a possible area of restoration. Please note this panel was inspected within the frame, the frame: regilded, some losses to textured ground, wear to gilding in places
Estimate:
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Price:
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Category:
Ceramics: Royal Worcester