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Description: | Artist: Courteys, Pierre I, maker - French enamelist, ca.1520-ca.1586;
Production Place: Limoges; Date(s): dated 1560; Classification(s): enamels, dish, raising (metal forming process), copper, enamelled en grisaille with pale salmon and darker salmon pink flesh tones, and a little red on a black background, with dotting, scrolls, sprays and other embellishments in gold; Acquisition: bequeathed by Clarke, Louis Colville Gray, 1960, Louis.C.G. Clarke Bequest, 1960 [M.116-1961]
Description: Oval dish decorated in grisaille enamels and gilded. On the front, the Wedding of Psyche with a border of masks and strapwork on the rim. On the back, Jupiter astride an eagle surrounded by male and female masks, strapwork and bunches of fruit, with guilloche ornament and strapwork on the underside of the rim. Signed 'P. COVRTEYS' on the front, and dated '1560' on the back. | 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: | dish Pierre I Courteys enamels | Temporal: | name=mid 16th century; start=1560; 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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