A Battersea enamel plaque c.1753-56, the oval form printed in brown with a portrait of a Chancellor of the Exchequer, probably intended to be Henry Boyle, 1st Earl of Shannon, unmounted, 9cm.Provenance: the Watney CollectionThe identity of the subject is discussed by Bernard Watney, ~The Chancellor on a Battersea Enamel~, ECC Trans Vol 7, pt 1 (1968). W B Honey suggested that the print was the work of two hands, the head by Ravenet and the costume by Hancock. See The Connoisseur, Vol LXXIV, 1932. Watney concluded that the subject was perhaps Henry Pelham after an engraving by John Hinton; however, more recent suggestion has been made that the likeness more closely resembles Henry Boyle.