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Techniques / painted

These things were made in Limoges, England and Germany between 1450 and 1898. Francois Limousin made one of them.

Panel; Diane de Poitiers
Vase
Casket, Abraham and Isaac
Back of a dish
Plaque, Minerva
Plate
Aeneas leaving Carthage
Plaque, Venus and Cupid
Plaque, Minerva
Judith with the head of Holofernes
Esther’s feast
Salt cellar
Mucius Scaevola
Mirror back, Dido and Diana
Mirror back, Cupids
Mirror back, Meleager and Atlanta
Subjects from the ‘Aeneid’
Spoon, muse
Spoon, Apollo
Ewer
Candle stick
Candle stick
Back of a dish
The Woman of the Apocalypse
Apollo and the Muses
St Catherine
St George and the Dragon
Anne d’Este
Plate
Plate
Casket, the story of Tobit
Portrait of an unknown man
Wine cup, Jacob’s Ladder
Casket panel, Boating party
Casket panel, seizure of Helen
Casket panel, triumph of Caesar
Casket panel, judgement of Paris
Sibyls casket
Mirror case
The Lyte Jewel
The Grenville Jewel
Portrait miniature of an unknown man