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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Plate, the centre painted with a dark brown medallion bearing a fictive shell cameo portrait, identified as the lyric poet Archilochus on the raised gilt border; the blue du roi underglaze blue rim veined to simulate lapis lazuli and flecked with gilding, outer border of wave scrolls with a gilt line, inner border of stiff leaves and berries, the white cavetto with a gilt band of flutes and dots. From the service iconographique grec.
Portrait of Archilochus after Ennio Visconti Iconographie Ancienne ou receuil des portraits authentiques (Paris 1808) 1 pl 2.
