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Description: | Artist: Court, Jean, dit Vigier, maker;
Production Place: Limoges; Date(s): circa 1600 - 1610; Classification(s): enamels, plate, raising (metal forming process), Copper, enamelled in polychrome and grisaille and gilded. The well has a partly foiled and partly white ground outlined in black, and painted in translucent blue, turquoise, green, yellow, mulberry, red, flesh pink, opaque white and black enamels, and gold. The reverse is painted in grisaille with flesh pink on a black back¬ground and painted in gold. There are a series of irregularly placed small holes in the enamel at the junction of the rim and well.
; Acquisition: bequeathed by Clarke, Louis Colville Gray, 1960, Louis.C.G. Clarke Bequest, 1960 [M.115A-1961]
Description: Copper, the front enamelled in polychrome and gilded with Joseph greeting his brothers in Egypt, and the back en grisaille with a radiating design of terms and torches linked by strapwork. Signed ‘•I.•C•’ in black on white strapwork below one of the torches. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/terms.htm | Publisher: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Rights holder: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Subjects: | Jean plate dit Vigier Court enamels | Temporal: | name=early 17th Century; start=1600; end=1610 | Source: | Fitzwilliam Museum | Creator: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Identifier: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opacdire... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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