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Lot 1134
A Cased Pair of Continental Mythological Theme Porcelain Trays
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Each one polychrome painted with exceptionally detailed classical scenes within a gilt edged circular rim, including the "Death of Adonis" after the fresco by Luca Giordano (Italian, 1634-1705), and the other likely depicting Venus and Adonis with his hound, both paintings unsigned, the undersides impressed with an elaborate "R" probably a variation of one of the marks used by Helene Wolfson, Dresden 1880s.

Each tray 1 1/2 x 15 1/2 in; Case 4 x 19 1/4 x 19 1/4 in.

From a Private Collection, Washington, D.C.

Wear to the gilt on the edges.