IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 156432 accession number: M.46-1904 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 10 November 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Rectangular convex plaque with slightly waisted left side, and two holes at top centre. Copper, painted in royal blue, pale blue, green, yellow, flesh pink, orange-red, red, brown, grey, black, white, and raised white enamels , and gilded. The counter-enamel is cloudy dark-brown. An oval medallion with a narrow white frame encloses St Louis kneeling on a cushion beside an altar. His right hand is extended behind him and his left hand is on his chest. He has a rayed halo around his head, and greying shoulder-length hair. He wears armour under a royal blue, ermine-lined robe semé with gold fleur-de-lys, a white fur collar, and a chain with a circular pendant bearing a red cross on a yellow ground. His crown and sceptre lie on the ground behind him on the viewer’s left, and on the right a green crown of thorns and nails rest on a white cloth on an altar with a red and yellow striped frontal with a red fringe on the lower edge. Above on the left is a green, draped up curtain, and on the right, the sunlight streams through clouds onto the Saint. The top of the cushion is pale blue semé with gold fleur-de-lys, and it has a red and yellow sides. In the spandrels outside the frame there is raised white foliage reserved in a black ground. At the bottom is a white panel inscribed in black, ‘SAINT LOUIS’ with a stylized leaf spray between the words. object type: rectangular plaque painted in enamels and gilded. St Louis kneeling before an altar, titled 'SAINT LOUIS' below, with raised white foliage reserved in a black ground in the spandrels title: plaque NOTES ----- type: history note value: Edwin H. Lawrence, FSA (1819-91); sold Christie’s, 4-6 May 1892, second day, lot 169; Frank McClean, MA, FRS (1837–1904); bequeathed by him. 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/156432 CATEGORIES ------ category: enamels DATING ------ creation date: 1730 - 1760 creation date earliest: 1730 creation date latest: 1760 culture: 18th Century, Mid culture: Louis XV CREATORS -------- maker: Nouailher, Jean-Baptiste I 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 -------- 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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