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Description: | Artist: Reymond, Pierre, maker - French enamelist, ca.1513-after 1584;
Production Place: Limoges; Date(s): circa 1530 - 1560; Classification(s): enamels, plaque, enamelling, rectangular, slightly convex copper plaque with arched top, enamelled on a white ground in blue, turquoise, yellow, flesh pink, mulberry, pale brown, black, and white, with a little gilding. The surface is extremely smooth and shiny. The Virgin, Child and angels are drawn in blue, and the throne in dark brown or black, also used for cross-hatching of shaded areas. The reverse has clear counter-enamel appearing pinkish-red from the copper beneath, and having several black spots and larger black area.
Gilt-metal frame set with ruby and yellow pastes, and a plaque enamelled in red and gilded; Acquisition: bequeathed by Marlay, Charles Brinsley, 1912, C.B. Marlay Bequest [MAR.M.251-1912]
Description: Copper decorated in polychrome enamels and gilt. The Virgin and Child enthroned and flanked by angels, in a gilt-metal frame set with pastes, and inscribed AVE (hail) | 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: | Reymond Pierre plaque enamels | Temporal: | name=mid 16th century; start=1530; end=1560 | 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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