APPARENTLY UNMARKED, THE ENAMEL PLAQUE PROBABLY BY JACOB WASSERBERGER, LAST QUARTER OF THE 19TH CENTURY

The central panel entitled the Council of the Gods is after a set of frescoes made by the Italian neoclassical painter Luigi Sabatelli (1772-1850) for the Illiad room at the Pitti Palace in Florence in 1819-1820. It depicts all the gods of Greek mythology and three goddesses of Roman mythology, the Moires 'Roman fates' gathered, at the request of Zeus, to discuss the sequence of events in their fight against the Titans.

The radiating panels, on the other hand, are contextually unrelated describing well loved myths: 'La Mort d'Eurydice', 'Vénus dans la forge de Vulcain', 'Le sacrifice d'Iphigénie', 'L'enlèvement d'Europe', 'Junon appairaissant à Barée', 'Le Triomphe d'Apollon', 'Vénus et Enée', 'Diane et Calliste', ' Pandore et Promethée', 'La Naissance de Vénus', 'Borée et Orythia' and 'Le Jugement de Paris'. Nonetheless much like the central panel, most are based on existing paintings: 'Diane et Calliste' is after Titian and 'Le Triomphe d'Apollon' is after Guido Reni's fresco 'Aurora' in The Palazzo Pallavicini-Rospigliosi in Rome.

An identical charger attributed to Hermann Ratzerdorfer, Vienna, 1866-1872 was illustrated in Pracht & Macht, Europas Glanz im 19. Jahrhundert, Privatsammlung Achim Neuse und Volker, Wurster, 2006, pp. 172-3.