IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 156449 accession number: MAR.M.254-1912 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 23 January 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Circular convex copper plaque, painted on both sides in blue, green, turquoise, yellow, flesh pink, pink, red, brown, grey, black, and white enamels, and gilded. Gilt brass (?) mount with a circular ring hinged to it at the top and bottom. On the front, Aurora stands on the left holding out her arms towards Cephalus who is accompanied by two hounds, and walks to the right looking back towards her. She wears a pink dress with a wind-blown blue drape. He wears a blue cuirass with yellow pteruges over a short white skirt, a pink cloak, and gold sandals, and carries a gold spear in his left hand. Both figures have pale grey hair, ruddy cheeks, and red toe nails. The hounds are white with red details, and gold collars. On the right is the trunk of a tree and there is a smaller tree in the left background. The ground is shaded in green, grey, and black, with small gold plants and highlights. The sky is black. Gold dots and lines enhance the edges of the garments, and there are dots on the foliage of the trees. Initialled in gold at bottom centre of the convex side, NL joined On the reverse: On the left Venus and Adonis are seated on a grassy bank beneath three trees. She wears a pink dress held up by shoulder straps. He has a yellow tunic and blue boots. Further to the right is a white hound with red details and a gold collar, and in the right background, a stream or lake, and a wood. The sky is black. The folds of the garments are dotted in gold, and there are vertical rows of small dashes on the tree trunks and groups of dots on the foliage of the smaller trees. object type: Copper painted in polychrome enamels on both sides, and gilt. Aurora and Cephalus on one side, and Venus and Adonis on the other; gilt metal frame with suspension ring at top and bottom. title: medallion NOTES ----- type: history note value: Martin Heckscher (d. 1897), Vienna; Christie’s 4-6 May 1898, 3rd day, lot 295; sold for £36 to C.B. Marlay (1831–1912); bequeathed by him 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/156449 PEOPLE ------------------- Aurora Cephalus Venus Adonis SUBJECTS ------------------- hound hunting sitting hound hunting sitting CATEGORIES ------ category: enamels DATING ------ creation date: 1650 - 1700 creation date earliest: 1650 creation date latest: 1700 culture: 17th Century, second half# CREATORS -------- maker: Laudin, Nicolas I maker: Laudin, Noël maker: Tempesta, Antonio CITATIONS -------- Metamorphoseon sive transformationum ovidianarum . . . Émaux de Limoges XIIe-XIXe siècle Le métier d’émailleur à Limoges, XVIe-XVIIe siècle Catalogue d’une belle collection d’objets d’art et de haute curiosité . . émaux de Limoges, ivoires, faïence italienne et de Bernard Palissy . . . . composant le cabinet de feu M. le baron Brunet-Denon, 2-9 February 1846 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/MAR_M_254_1912_20_281_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 650 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/mid_MAR_M_254_1912_20_281_29.jpg height: 585 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/MAR_M_254_1912_20_281_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 650 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/preview_MAR_M_254_1912_20_281_29.jpg height: 292 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/MAR_M_254_1912_20_282_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 631 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/mid_MAR_M_254_1912_20_282_29.jpg height: 602 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/MAR_M_254_1912_20_282_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 631 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/preview_MAR_M_254_1912_20_282_29.jpg height: 301 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/505/314/large_MAR_M_254_1912_1_200801_mfj22_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/505/314/mid_MAR_M_254_1912_1_200801_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 750 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/MAR.M.254-1912_1_200801_mfj22_mas.tif surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/505/314/preview_MAR_M_254_1912_1_200801_mfj22_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/505/314/MAR_M_254_1912_1_200801_mfj22_mas.ptif height: 4992 pixels width: 3328 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/505/315/large_MAR_M_254_1912_2_200801_mfj22_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/505/315/mid_MAR_M_254_1912_2_200801_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 750 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/MAR.M.254-1912_2_200801_mfj22_mas.tif surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/505/315/preview_MAR_M_254_1912_2_200801_mfj22_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/505/315/MAR_M_254_1912_2_200801_mfj22_mas.ptif height: 4992 pixels width: 3328 pixels