The meeting of Abraham and Melchizedek, French, Limoges, early 17th century. Photo Sotheby's

painted enamel on metal foil and copper, with gilding, within a later gilt metal frame plaque: 8.8 by 11.7cm., 3½ by 4 5/8 in.- frame: 10.2 by 13cm., 4 by 5 1/8 in. Estimate 5,000 — 7,000 GBP

Note: The composition for this very fine enamel is derived from a print by Bernard Salomon from the 1553 edition of Claude Paradin's Quadrins historiques de la Bible.

RELATED LITERATURE: V. Notin, Émaux limousins du musée national de l'Ermitage de Saint-Pétersbourg, exh. cat. Musée municipal de l'évêché-Limoges, Limoges, 2004, pp. 166-167, no. 69

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