A Battersea enamel plaque, circa 1751-53A Battersea enamel plaque, circa 1751-53Of upright oval form, printed in sepia with a portrait of Elizabeth Gunning, engraved by Ravenet, in a tooled gilt metal frame, 9.5cm high including frameProvenanceBunny and Paul Davies CollectionThe source is a painting by F Cotes painted in 1751. A pair of portraits of sisters Elizabeth Gunning, afterwards Duchess of Hamilton and later Duchess of Argyle and Maria, afterwards Countess of Coventry, both after Cotes originals is illustrated by Egan Mew, Battersea Enamels (1926), fig.10. The beautiful Gunning sisters took London by storm when they arrived from Ireland in 1750.