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Painted Limoges enamel candlestick; copper; holder, large pan and base decorated with twelve oval bosses; stem decorated with bearded man in armour and woman dressed like Diana in a chariot; two horses ahead led by a woman; behind chariot a train of musicians and dancers; on pan: a triumphal procession?; foot: bosses show: Hercules?; Jupiter; Hercules and the Nemean lion; Venus and Cupid; Hercules and the Lernean Hydra; Juno with her peacock; Hercules with Antaeus in the form of a sea monster; Minerva with owl; Hercules with pillars; Mars with dog; Hercules killing Cacus; Diana with crescent moon and dogs; painted in semi-opaque enamels over a white preparation, translucent enamels over coloured foils and grisaille of grey-white with pink flesh tones; details in enlevage and gilding; all on black ground, powdered minutely with gilding.
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