IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 156430 accession number: M.44-1904 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 28 February 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Slightly convex D-shaped copper plaque, painted in blue, turquoise, green, yellow, pale mulberry, pale purple, brown, black, and white enamel on a white ground. Clear counter-enamel with dark brown spots and mottled brown areas. On the left a saddled white horse stands in profile to the right. A youth wearing a turquoise phrygian cap, a blue tunic, and yellow boots stands behind the horse, and has his right arm over the saddle. Two men stand by the horse’s head holding its bridle. One, perhaps Hercules? wears a brown lion’s mask, a brown tunic, and turquoise skirt . The other who has his back to the viewer, points with his right arm towards the right. He wears a turquoise helmet al antica with feather, a brown tunic with a triangular turquoise collar over a garment with blue, green and yellow sleeves, and blue and yellow tights. He has a sword, and three brown bags are suspended from beneath his tunic. An angry small boy wearing a yellow tunic runs from the right towards the horses, shaking his fist. An old woman wearing a blue dress and white cap stands behind him gesticulating. In front of her in the foreground, another man, perhaps a peasant, has his back to the viewer, and holds out both his arms out towards the left. He wears a yellow hat, a pink tunic, and ragged calf-length breeches, and has a knife in a brown sheath suspended from his waist. In the left foreground, a white dog runs towards the figures. The ground is painted with areas of pale purple and green, and there are two yellow plants in the foreground. Gold is used sparingly on the edge of the woman’s cap, for the pattern on the sheath of the knife of the man standing in front of her, on the helmet and its feather on the other man, and on the edges of the horse’s equipment. The plaque is mounted in a D-shaped wooden frame. covered in red velvet, with a gilt-metal inner edge on the front. The frame covers the edges of the plaque at the back. object type: Copper plaque with a white ground, painted in enamels with a horse, two men, an old woman, a boy, and a dog title: plaque NOTES ----- type: history note value: Hollingworth Magniac, Colworth, Bedfordshire; his son, Charles Magniac; 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, 3rd Day, 5 July, lot 247; sold for £31.10.0 to 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/156430 PEOPLE ------------------- Magniac, Hollingworth SUBJECTS ------------------- horse dog horse dog CATEGORIES ------ category: enamels DATING ------ creation date: 1565 - 1573 creation date earliest: 1565 creation date latest: 1573 culture: 16th Century, third quarter# culture: Renaissance CREATORS -------- maker: Limosin, Léonard EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: 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. CITATIONS -------- Notice of the Principal Works of Art in the Collection of Hollingworth Magniac 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. Léonard Limosin au Musée du Louvre Les émaux peints de Limoges. 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