PALACE-SCALE FRENCH RELIEF-CAST CIRCULAR COPPER DECORATIVE WALL PLAQUE,19th century. Depicting the image of famous French playwright Moliere - 37 in. diam. Estimate $800-1,200
NOTE: Moliere's real name was Jean Babtiste Poquelin (1622-1673) and was the leading French comic actor, stage director, and dramatic theoretician of the 17th century. He composed twelve durable, penetratingly satirical full-length comedies, some in rhyming verse, some prose, as well as six shorter farces and comedies. Moliere ranks with other masters of the genre: Aristophanes, Plautus, and George Bernard Shaw.
