MOUSTIERS Pair of earthenware rimmed plates with blue, green and ochre mythological decoration in the center on one of Jason and the Golden Fleece in a landscape and on the other of Zeus holding thunderbolts accompanied by an eagle in a landscape, the wing decorated with flowers of, blue nets on the edge. Marked: OL, early Olerys manufacture. 18th century. D. 24.5 cm. PROVENANCE Etude Tajan sale, Hôtel George V, December 17, 2003, lot 110.

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