IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 139821 accession number: M.111-1961 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 5 March 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Copper enamelled on both sides in grisaille with pale greyish-pink flesh tones over a black ground, and gilded. The front has also a little red and blue enamel. Circular with a sloping rim with raised outer edge, deep sides, gently curved well and central boss. The boss has an almost flat medallion bearing a beribboned shield charged with the arms, quarterly 1 and 3 chequey gules and or, and 2 and 4, azure, a hound’s head, in chief, a label of three points and in base, a crescent or . This is surrounded by a raised white band decorated with black dots and continuous scalloping, a black cavetto with gold scrollwork, a band of black guilloche on a white ground, and tiny gold circles on a black band. Around this are five scenes from Genesis: the Creation of Eve, labelled ‘I’; the Fall of Man, labelled ‘II’; God admonishing Adam and Eve labelled ‘III’, initialled PR in black on the ground; the Expulsion from Paradise, labelled ‘GENESE III’; the Killing of Abel by Cain, labelled ‘IIII’. On the sides there is a repeating design of gold foliated scrolls on a black ground, and on the rim, pairs of foliated scrolls, each one terminating in a cornucopia, with a putto astride it, with sprays of gold foliage in the background. On the reverse, the underside of the boss has a black ground, decorated with eight addorsed C- scrolls surrounded by scattered stars. On the back of the well there are four female terms linked by a continuous wavy drape, and holding up between them four dishes of fruit. Below each of which is a pair of affronted male and female monsters with wings and scrolling tails. Round the edge is a narrow and a broad band which rises into a small arch below the monsters. On the sides there are gold foliated scrolls on a black ground, and on the rim, foliated scrolls terminating in small monsters’ heads and shells. object type: Copper enamelled in grisaille and pink flesh tones with five scenes from Genesis and gilded. Initialed PR. On the reverse, strapwork and grotesques. title: basin NOTES ----- type: history note value: Baron Gustave de Rothschild (1829-1911); Sir Philip Sassoon, Bt., MP, CMG and the Countess of Rocksavage; Christie’s, 26-27 November, 1919, Catalogue of objets of art, porcelain & faience and fine French tapestry, the property of Sir Philip Sassoon, Bart, M.P., C.M.G., and of the Countess of Rocksavage, p. 10, lot 74; George Durlacher; Christie’s, 6-7 April 1938, Catalogue of Italian maiolica bronzes & objects of art, French and Italian furniture of the Renaissance, tapestry and textiles sold by order of George Durlacher Esq., p. 12, lot 32, illustrated opposite; the Fitzwilliam’s copy of the Catalogue is inscribed ‘‘Bt by Durlacher at his sale at Christie’s, by L.C.G. C.’; Louis Colville Gray Clarke, MA, Litt. D, Leckhampton, Cambridge. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: Louis C. G. Clarke creditline: Louis.C.G. Clarke Bequest, 1960 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/139821 PEOPLE ------------------- Rothschild, Gustave de Sassoon, Philip, Sir Durlacher, George Adam Eve Cain Abel God SUBJECTS ------------------- hand washing coat-of-arms Creation of Eve The Fall of Man God admonishing Adam and Eve The Expulsion from Eden The Murder of Abel by Cain coat-of-arms Creation of Eve The Fall of Man God admonishing Adam and Eve The Expulsion from Eden The Murder of Abel by Cain TECHNIQUES ---------- copper enamelled on both sides en grisaille with pale greyish-pink flesh tones on a black ground, and gilded. The front has also a little red and blue enamel. raising (metal forming process) CATEGORIES ------ category: enamels category: Limoges painted enamels DATING ------ creation date: 1555 - 1565 creation date earliest: 1555 creation date latest: 1565 culture: 16th Century, third quarter# CREATORS -------- maker: Reymond, Pierre maker: Lucas van Leyden DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 47.5 dimension: Height units: cm value: 5.3 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Feast and Fast: The Art of Food in Europe (1500-1800) CITATIONS -------- Exposition Historique de l'Art Ancien, Les Grandes Collections au Trocadero, Collections de MM les Barons de Rothschild (suite) Emaux Pierre Reymond, Emailleur à Limoges Catalogue of objects of art, porcelain and faience and fine French tapestry, the property of Sir Philip Sassoon Bart, MP, CMG and the Countess of Rocksavage of 25 Park Lane Catalogue of Italian maiolica bronzes and objects of art, French and Italian furniture of the Renaissance, tapestry and textiles sold by order of George Durlacher Esq. Feast & Fast. The Art of Food in Europe 1500-1800 Illustrated Bartsch, 12 Formerly Volume 7 (Part 3) Hans Baldung Grien, Hans Springklee, Lucas van Leyden The New Hollstein, Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts 1450-1700 The Walters Art Gallery, Catalogue of the Painted Enamels of the Renaissance Painted Enamels of Limoges. XV & XVI Centuries, The State Ermitage Collection Émaux limousins du Musée national de l'Ermitage de Saint-Pétersbourg Limozhskie raspisnye ėmali v sobranii Ėrmitazha/Émaux peints de Limoges de la collection de l'Ermitage The Painted Enamels of Limoges. A Catalogue of the Collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Maleremails aus Limoges, Der Bestand des Berliner Kunstgewerbemuseums Maleremails des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts aus Limoges, Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum Braunschweig, Kunstmuseum des Landes Niedersachsen Important European Furniture and Sculpture Das Tucherservice The Wernher Collection, Luton Hoo. Catalogue, Part One General Guide. 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