by Anne Doridou-Heim
Not seen at auction for 129 years, this enamel plaque has now re-emerged from a distant past, after a long saga marked by unveiled intrigues and mysteries still to be elucidated. Here we see an intriguing and fascinating object from the repertory of the goldsmith-enamelers of the Limoges workshops. Though other enamels from the opus lemovicense (Limoges work) were inspired by Virgil’s Aeneid, the scale of this body of work is unparalleled in Limoges enameling, at a time when enamelers had achieved a rare level of excellence in the technique of enamel painting on copper. Read more
