IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 139824 accession number: M.11-1938 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 January 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Elongated octagonal slightly convex copper plaque, decorated in polychrome enamels over foils and and gilded. The central oval medallion has a white ground, decorated in translucent blue, green, turquoise, brownish-yellow, and mulberry enamels over foils, and in pinkish-red, and white enamels for the flesh. The border has a black ground, with motifs in translucent enamels over foils. Gilding, brownish in places, has been applied for outlines or details over both areas. The plaque is mounted in an octagonal gilt-metal frame hinged to another octagonal gilt-metal frame with an egg and dart border enclosing an octagonal bevelled mirror. At the top there is a foliated suspension loop with a ring through it, and another ring through that. decorated in polychrome enamels over foils and and gilded. Within a horizonal oval medallion Jupiter in the form of Diana embraces Callisto in a landscape. The former wears a mulberry gown with a blue tunic and a blue scarf which billows out behind her. Callisto wears a blue dress which reveals her right leg. Both have wavy brownish-yellow hair drawn back from their brows. A gold bow and a quiver lie on the grass in the foreground. In the background to the right there is a tree on a mound, and to the left, a house beside a tree. The sky is blue. Above and below the panel there is a bird with blue, and mulberry plumage, flanked by green, mulbery or blue foiled flowers, reserved in a black ground decorated with delicate gold tendrils. object type: Mirror enclosed in a gilt-metal frame with on the exterior a copper plaque decorated with polychrome enamels, partly over foils, and gilded. Jupiter in the form of Diana and Callisto in a landscape. title: portable mirror NOTES ----- type: history note value: Probably Christie’s 18 July, 1917, lot 8; bought by Pawsey & Payne, 1 Bury Street, St James Square, London, SW1 for £131 5s. 0d. on behalf of Leonard D. Cunliffe (1860-1937), London and Trelissick, Cornwall. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: Leonard D. Cunliffe creditline: L.D. Cunliffe Bequest, 1937 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/139824 PEOPLE ------------------- Diana Callisto SUBJECTS ------------------- deception landscape landscape CATEGORIES ------ category: enamels category: Limoges painted enamels DATING ------ creation date: 1600 - 1625 creation date earliest: 1600 creation date latest: 1625 culture: 17th Century, Early# CREATORS -------- maker: Limosin, François I maker: Limosin, Jean DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 1.2 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Treasured Possessions from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment CITATIONS -------- Treasured Possessions from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment Le métier d’émailleur à Limoges, XVIe-XVIIe siècle Limoges and other painted Enamels Les émaux peints de Limoges. Musée du Louvre, Département des objets d'art La Rencontre des Héros, Regards croisées sur les émaux peints de la Renaissance appartenant aux collections du Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris et du Musée municipal de L'Évêché de Limoges L’émail au temps de Louis XIII Limozhskie raspisnye ėmali v sobranii Ėrmitazha/Émaux peints de Limoges de la collection de l'Ermitage Collection Dormeuil, ivoires et émaux du Moyen Age --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/M_11_1938_20_281_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 540 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/mid_M_11_1938_20_281_29.jpg height: 704 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/M_11_1938_20_281_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 540 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: 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