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Red dots, Delacroix plate

Posted by Suzan Kaplan on September 28, 2011 at 11:02pm

Red dots. For those of you discussing red markings on jewelry, this plate belonged to painter Eugene Delacroix. He collected it in Morocco in 1832 and it's currently in Musée Delacroix in Paris. I always assumed he added the red dots to the plates but maybe he didn't and they got there for the same reason they're on jewelry.

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Suzan Kaplan September 28, 2011 at 11:09pm

Red dots. For those of you discussing red markings on jewelry, this plate belonged to painter Eugene Delacroix. He collected it in Morocco in 1832 and it's currently in Musée Delacroix in Paris. I always assumed he added the red dots to the plates but maybe he didn't and they got there for the same reason they're on jewelry.
Patricia Deany September 29, 2011 at 12:26am

Fascinating and certainly looks like they were added later and looks like they are enamel. So far, I have only seen this in ida ou nadif pieces -- and not all of them, usually the older, darker pendants. I did learn the last time I went to Morocco that sometimes ladies would rub henna into their jewelry to increase the beneficial qualities of wearing it -- but the henna clearly is not the enamel -- I will try to ask a jeweler next time I got to Morocco about the red dots.
SARAH CORBETT September 29, 2011 at 8:18am

Hi, The plate itself is work from Fes en Bali.

I shall ask about the red dots. I am in Morocco at the moment

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