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Limoges cup, with the creation of Adam, by Jean Court dit Vigier

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An image of Standing Cup with Cover/Tazza. Master IC (workshop). Court dit Vigier, Jean I (French, workshop, d. 1592). The interior of the cup is decorated with the Creation of Adam. The cover is decorated on the exterior with a central flowerhead surrounded by four leonine masks on curling strapwork, around which is a continuous procession of revelling putti wearing vine wreaths in their hair. The hemispherical bowl of the cup is supported on a vase-shaped knop on top of a bell-shaped circular foot. The low domed cover has a flange round the edge, and a raised central area with a replacement finial in the form of a horizontal metal grotesque mask.Copper, enamelled en grisaille with pink on a black ground. Height, whole, 19.2 cm, height, cup, 15.5 cm, diameter, rim of cup, 17.5 cm, diameter, foot of cup, 10.5 cm, diameter, rim of cover, 19.5 cm, circa 1555- before 1580. Limoges, France. Renaissance.

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Standing Cup with Cover/Tazza. Master IC (workshop). Court dit Vigier, Jean I (French, workshop, d. 1592). The interior of the cup is decorated with the Creation of Adam. The cover is decorated on the exterior with a central flowerhead surrounded by four leonine masks on curling strapwork, around which is a continuous procession of revelling putti wearing vine wreaths in their hair. The hemispherical bowl of the cup is supported on a vase-shaped knop on top of a bell-shaped circular foot. The low domed cover has a flange round the edge, and a raised central area with a replacement finial in the form of a horizontal metal grotesque mask.Copper, enamelled en grisaille with pink on a black ground. Height, whole, 19.2 cm, height, cup, 15.5 cm, diameter, rim of cup, 17.5 cm, diameter, foot of cup, 10.5 cm, diameter, rim of cover, 19.5 cm, circa 1555- before 1580. Limoges, France. Renaissance.

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  • Accession Number: M.31 & A-1933
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/16.0
  • Focal length: 50
  • Camera: Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II
  • Photographer name: Michael Jones
  • Image height: 700 pixels
  • Image width: 710 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
  • Filesize: 378.52kB
  • Exposure time: 1/100
  • ISO Speed: 200
  • Fnumber: 16/1
  • Captured: 2007:12:21 00:26:31

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