IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 156442 accession number: M.53-1904 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 27 November 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Rectangular, slightly convex copper plaque, enamelled en grisaille on a translucent brown ground, and gilded. The reverse has clear counter-enamel, but much of it is covered by a black substance, partly scraped away. The Virgin is seated on the left holding the Christ Child on her knee. St Joseph stands to the left in profile, and an aged King with a long beard kneels in front of the Child and holds His left foot in his hand. The other two kings holding cups in their right hands stand in front of a column in the middle. One faces the front, and doffs his hat. The other, richly-dressed, has his back towards the viewer. Further to the right a retainer stands beside a horse, Behind it is another horse ridden by a man with a shield and a banner, and a third man stands gazing back towards a star with a streaming tail in the sky on the left. Below it is a castle, and another is on a hill rising up behind the retainers and horses. In the foreground to left there is a fragment of broken column, and to right a small heap of stones and a low wall Gilding is used sparingly for the halos of the Holy Family, a chain round the neck of the man doffing his hat, the star, and the lower end of a staff or sword scabbard at centre. In a gilt-metal rectangular moulded frame with a rosette in the middle of each side, and a stud in each corner. object type: Rectangular plaque of the Adoration of the Magi painted en grisailled on a translucent brown ground, and gilded title: plaque NOTES ----- type: history note value: unknown before testator 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/156442 PEOPLE ------------------- Virgin Mary Christ Joseph Magi SUBJECTS ------------------- horse horse CATEGORIES ------ category: enamels DATING ------ creation date: 1840 - 1880 creation date earliest: 1840 creation date latest: 1880 culture: 19th Century, Mid# CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified 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. Deux tableaux flamands non signés du XVIe siècle: Cene et Adoration des Mages Catalogue of the Collection of Pictures, Works of Art, and Decorative Objects the property of His Grace the Duke of Hamilton, K.T The Hamilton Palace Collection. 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