IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 156427 accession number: M.41 & A-1904 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 1 March 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Rectangular convex copper plaque with arched top, enamelled on a white ground in dark blue, turquoise, yellow, pink, mulberry, brown, black, grey and white, and gilded. The reverse has clear counter-enamel.The Nativity is shown in an open loggia with a timber roof supported by a column. The Christ Child lies in the centre behind a turquoise wattled fence, watched by an ox and ass behind a similar fence. Mary kneels on the right with her hands together in prayer. She has fair hair, and wears a dark blue cloak over a mulberry dress. Joseph approaches through the door of a grey building on the left, raising his cap with his right hand and carrying a candle in his left. He has grey hair and beard, a blue hat, a mulberry tunic, and yellow boots (only one visible). The foreground is turquoise and in the background there are turquoise trees. The dark blue sky is scattered with gold stars, among which is one large star with rays. There are gold lines running round the door of the building, the edges of Mary’s cloak, and the edge of the candle, and the timbers of the roof are heavily gilded. The plaque has carved wooden frame (A) in the form of a tabernacle with a half-figure of God the Father above the pediment with a shell-shaped niche above, and a winged cherub's head between foliated scrolls at the bottom. A rectangle in the middle of the pediment and a horizontal line above the lower moulding are gilded. object type: Rectangular copper plaque with arched top, decorated with polychrome enamels, and gilded. The Virgin kneels on the right before a wattled crib, and St Joseph holding a candle enters from the left through a doorway. title: plaque NOTES ----- type: history note value: Uncertain before testator, Frank McClean MA, FRS (1837-1904), 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/156427 PEOPLE ------------------- Virgin Mary Joseph Christ SUBJECTS ------------------- Nativity Nativity CATEGORIES ------ category: enamels category: Limoges painted enamels DATING ------ creation date: 1540 - 1560 creation date earliest: 1540 creation date latest: 1560 culture: 16th Century, second quarter# culture: Renaissance CREATORS -------- maker: Reymond, Pierre CITATIONS -------- 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. Catalogue des objets d'art et de haute curiosité de l'antiquité, du moyen âge, de la renaissances, des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. Faiences italiennes, ivoires, bronzes, objets de vitrine. 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