Details
Gilt and painted in colors with the biblical scene (Ex.2:5-6) of Moses found by the Pharaoh's daughter after a print by Joseph Wagner (1706 - 1780), after Jacopo Amigoni (1675-1752), depicting the Pharaoh's daughter attended by a child and a maiden holding an umbrella, another maiden bending forward to retrieve the infant Moses from the river, the shaped raised border with a band of shells flanked by foliage, diaperwork and scrolls, pierced with an aperture to the top
1418 in. (35.8 cm.) wide
Provenance
Art Céramique Ancien Nicolier, 7 Quai Voltaire, Paris (sticker).
Anonymous sale; Christie's, Amsterdam, 15 May 2002, lot 437.
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For the 1745 engraving by Joseph Wagner that the present plaque is based upon, see the example in the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., accession no. 1984.84.1.

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