A pair of pearlware portrait plaques c.1800

A pair of pearlware portrait plaques c.1800, modelled in high relief with profile portraits of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, coloured and reserved on a pink ground within a beaded black border, the Marie Antoinette plaque restored, 18.5cm. (2)

Provenance: the collection of Aurea Carter.

Cf. Griselda Lewis, Pratt Ware, p.132 for a similar pair. Lewis attributes the source of these plaques to a pair of Wedgwood Jasperware plaques modelled by William Hackwood in 1778.