IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 156446 accession number: MAR.M.251-1912 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 1 March 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Rectangular, slightly convex plaque with arched top. Copper, enamelled on a white ground in blue, turquoise, yellow, flesh pink, mulberry, pale brown, black, and white, with a little gilding. The surface is extremely smooth and shiny. The Virgin, Child and angels are drawn in blue, and the throne in dark brown or black, also used for cross-hatching of shaded areas.. The reverse has clear counter-enamel appearing pinkish-red from the copper beneath, and having several black spots and larger black area. The Virgin sits on a massive throne holding the Christ Child on her left knee. She has a circular mulberry halo and pale brown hair, and wears a blue cloak over a mulberry gown. The nude Christ Child is fair-haired, and leans against his mother, grasping her cloak in his left hand.The pale brown throne has nude figures carved on the fronts of its arms, and a lozenge and formal leaf sprays in the end panels of its sides. The apsidal canopy is carved with a shell, coloured turquoise. On either side are standing angels with turquoise wings and white robes. The angel on the viewer’s right is playing a gold flute, and the one on the left holds his vertically in front of him. The blue sky behind them is scattered with gold stars, which are barely visible on the right side. The ground in front of the throne is turquoise. The rectangular gilt-metal (brass?) frame has a central pediment surmounted by a vase and flanked by red paste gems. The pediment is set with a circular plaque enamelled in translucent red and painted in gold with a central quatrefoil flower surrounded by four foliated scrolls.. Below it the word AVE (Hail) is engraved with double lines. On each end of the top of the frame there is a matching vase. The oval aperture for the plaque is flanked at the top by two claw-set, clear table cut yellowish pastes, and at the bottom by two pale ruby pastes. There are three holes between them on each side. The plaque is held in position on the reverse by folded teeth. A removable gilded wood panel covers the back. object type: Copper decorated in polychrome enamels and gilt. The Virgin and Child enthroned and flanked by angels, in a gilt-metal frame set with pastes, and inscribed AVE (hail) title: plaque NOTES ----- type: history note value: uncertain before the testator, Charles Brinsley Marlay (1831-1912) LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: C. B. Marlay creditline: C.B. Marlay Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/156446 PEOPLE ------------------- Virgin Mary angel SUBJECTS ------------------- throne shell Virgin and Child Enthroned throne shell Virgin and Child Enthroned CATEGORIES ------ category: enamels category: Limoges painted enamels DATING ------ creation date: 1540 - 1560 creation date earliest: 1540 creation date latest: 1560 culture: 16th Century, Mid CREATORS -------- maker: Reymond, Pierre CITATIONS -------- Les émaux peints de Limoges. Musée du Louvre, Département des objets d'art Catalogue of the well-known collection of Works of Art of the Classic, Mediaeval and Renaissance Times, formed by Sir Thomas Gibson Carmichael Bart, of Castle Craig, N.B La Collection Spitzer- Antiquité - Moyen-Age - Renaissance France 1500 entre Moyen Age et Renaissance Les vitraux d’Auvergne et du Limousin Works of Art, Newsletter, 19 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/MAR_M_251_1912_20_281_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 539 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/mid_MAR_M_251_1912_20_281_29.jpg height: 705 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/MAR_M_251_1912_20_281_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 539 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/preview_MAR_M_251_1912_20_281_29.jpg height: 353 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/MAR_M_251_1912_20_282_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 557 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/mid_MAR_M_251_1912_20_282_29.jpg height: 682 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/MAR_M_251_1912_20_282_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 557 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/preview_MAR_M_251_1912_20_282_29.jpg height: 341 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/505/302/large_MAR_M_251_1912_1_mas.jpg height: 1308 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/505/302/mid_MAR_M_251_1912_1_mas.jpg height: 639 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/MAR.M.251-1912_1_mas.tif surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/505/302/preview_MAR_M_251_1912_1_mas.jpg height: 319 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/505/302/MAR_M_251_1912_1_mas.ptif height: 5410 pixels width: 4236 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/505/305/large_MAR_M_251_1912_2_mas.jpg height: 1536 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/505/305/mid_MAR_M_251_1912_2_mas.jpg height: 750 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/MAR.M.251-1912_2_mas.tif surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/505/305/preview_MAR_M_251_1912_2_mas.jpg height: 375 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/505/305/MAR_M_251_1912_2_mas.ptif height: 4992 pixels width: 3328 pixels