POSSIBLY BY A MEMBER OF THE NOUAILHER FAMILY, EARLY 18TH CENTURY

Details

A parcel-gilt enamelled copper plaque depicting the Education of the Virgin
Possibly by a member of the Nouailher family, early 18th Century
Signed with initials I.B.N. lower centre, on a later rectangular velvet covered mount with a hinged support to the reverse
17cm. high

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Sale room notice

Please note that this lot was part of the exhibition Virga Jesse in Hasselt 1989, catalogue number 5.

Lot Essay

As Susan Caroselli notes (The Painted Enamels of Limoges - A Catalogue of the Collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 1993, p. 36), the Nouailher family is known to have existed in Limoges until at least 1804, although their main period of activity was in the 16th Century.

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