In the Renaissance taste. Two copper presentation dishes decorated with polychrome enamels, grisaille and gold highlights, the basins titled with the effigy of the King of France Charles IX and Marie de Médicis (wear and distortion). The wing is decorated with alternating masks of satyrs in a hollowed reserve and friezes of griffins framing a vase. 19th century. Diameter : 31 cm Note: Charles IX (1550-1574), son of Henri II and Catherine de Médicis, acceded to the throne of France at a time when the country was divided between Catholics and Protestants. His reign culminated in the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre of 1572. Marie de Médicis (1575-1642) became Queen of France and Navarre in 1600 through her marriage to Henri IV, the future regent before her son Louis XIII acceded to the throne.