IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 156425 accession number: M.39-1904 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 27 February 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Circular very slightly convex copper plaque with a small hole on each side, painted in multi-couche technique in blue, greyish-blue, green, turquoise, pale yellowish-brown, mulberry, black, grey, on a white ground, with jewelling over silver foil. The Virgin is seated on a wooden stool. She looks downwards, and holds the wide-awake infant Christ on her knee to greet one of the kings, who kneels before him holding out an open casket. A second king stands behind them in the centre, pointing to the right with his right index finger. The third more youthful king stands on the right. Behind the figures is the gable end of a rustic building, and on the right, an area of sky with a star. On the reverse, the copper is visible through the almost clear but cloudy counter-enamel with many pin holes. The plaque is mounted in a circular gilt wood frame with a border of small impressed circles round the top, and on the cavetto, a pricked repeating pattern of elliptical outlines. On accession the back was closed by brown paper, with near the top a small dark red leather suspension tab. object type: Copper roundel decorated with polychrome enamels, and some jewelling over paillons, in circular gilt-wood frame. The Virgin sits with the Christ Child on her lap on the left in front of the gable end of a building. One king kneels to present a casket while the other two kings stand behind her. title: plaque NOTES ----- type: history note value: Holingworth Magniac, Colworth, Bedfordshire; sold Christie’s, 2, 4-8 and 11-15 July 1892, Catalogue of the renowned collection of works of art chiefly formed by the late Hollingworth Magniac Esq. (known as the Colworth Collection), 5th Day, 7 July, p. 138, lot 516, sold for £33.12.0 to Frank McClean, Tunbridge Wells. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: Frank McClean creditline: Frank McClean Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/156425 PEOPLE ------------------- Magniac, Hollingworth Magniac, Charles Virgin Mary Joseph Christ magus SUBJECTS ------------------- stable Adoration of the Magi stable Adoration of the Magi CATEGORIES ------ category: enamels category: Limoges painted enamels DATING ------ creation date: 1515 - 1530 creation date earliest: 1515 creation date latest: 1530 culture: 16th Century, Early# CREATORS -------- maker: Pénicaud workshop maker: Master of the High Foreheads CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Renowned Collection of Works of Art, chiefly formed by the late Hollingworth Magniac, Esq. (Known as the Colworth Collection) Fitzwilliam Museum, McClean Bequest, Catalogue of the Mediaeval Ivories, Enamels, Jewellery, Gems and Miscellaneous Objects Bequeathed to the Museum by Frank McClean, M.A., F.R.S. 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