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Description: | Artist: Limosin, Jean (signed Jehan), maker - b. c. 1580; d. 3 May 1646;
Production Place: Limoges; Date(s): circa 1625 - 1645; Classification(s): enamels, plaque, enamelling, rectangular, convex copper plaque with a small circular hole in each corner, decorated with translucent, blue, green, mulberry and purple enamels and yellowish-brown, pinkish-red, grey, black and white enamels, and gilded. The outlines are executed in black, and the flesh areas are hatched and cross-hatched in grey and black, and stippled in pinkish-red. The counter-enamel is transparent; Acquisition: bequeathed by Marlay, Charles Brinsley, 1912, C.B. Marlay Bequest [MAR.M.255-1912]
Description: Copper painted in polychrome enamels and gilt. A a half-length figure of the Virgin holding the Christ Child to her breast, against a black ground strewn with gold stars, titled S.MARIA, and initialled IL with an ill-defined fleur-de-lys or cross between the letters | 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: | Limosin plaque Jean (signed Jehan) enamels | Temporal: | name=second quarter of 17th century; start=1625; end=1645 | 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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