collectionspitzer-1929-cv-fr—0229

WAX AND TERRA COTTA BAS-RELIEFS NUMBERS 496-510 [496] [499] [496] [498] [497] [498] 496 PAIR OF BAS-RELIEFS OF COLORED WAX FRENCH, MID-18TH CENTURY Attributed to Jacques Guay, Graveur attitré of Madame Pompadour. Circular medallions, each containing a decorative composition painted in exquisite polychromy, one with trophies of love crested by a Turk’s head and under a festoon with lion’s mark. The other similarly ar-ranged with martial trophies and those of the hunt. In square black frames of a later date. (2) Size of each, in frame, 61/2 inehes square From the Spitzer legacies. [SEE ILLUSTRATION] 217