IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 156450 accession number: MAR.M.255-1912 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 January 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Rectangular, convex copper plaque with a small circular hole in each corner, decorated with translucent, blue, green, mulberry and purple enamels, and yellowish-brown, pinkish-red, grey, black and white enamels, and gilded. The outlines are executed in black, and the flesh areas are hatched and cross-hatched in grey and black, and stippled in pinkish-red. The counter-enamel is transparent. A half-length figure of the Virgin holding the Christ Child to her breast with her right hand and helping him to feed with her left. The Virgin has a blue and purple headdress over her brownish-yellow hair, and wears a purple and mulberry gown with long blue sleeves, and a blue cloak. The Christ Child wears a white napkin. There are small gold plants on the green ground below, and the black ground above is semé with gold stars around the large striated halo of the Virgin. At the bottom below a gold lines, is a horizontal black band inscribed S.MARIA’ beween stylized plant sprays, and on the extreme right the initials ‘I L’ with an ill-defined fleur-de-lys or cross between them, all in gold. A narrow gold line runs round the outer edge of the plaque. object type: Copper, olychrome enamels and gold. A a half-length figure of the Virgin holding the Christ Child to her breast, against a black ground strewn with gold stars, titled S.MARIA, and initialled IL with an ill-defined fleur-de-lys or cross between the letters title: plaque NOTES ----- type: history note value: uncertain before 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/156450 PEOPLE ------------------- Virgin Mary Christ Child SUBJECTS ------------------- breast feeding breast feeding CATEGORIES ------ category: enamels category: Limoges painted enamels DATING ------ creation date: 1605 - 1635 creation date earliest: 1605 creation date latest: 1635 culture: 17th Century, first half CREATORS -------- maker: Limosin, Jean DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 9.9 dimension: Width units: cm value: 7.1 CITATIONS -------- The Walters Art Gallery, Catalogue of the Painted Enamels of the Renaissance Le métier d’émailleur à Limoges, XVIe-XVIIe siècle Émaux peints de Limoges XVe-XVIIIe siècles, la collection du Musée des Arts Décoratifs --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/MAR_M_255_1912_20_281_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 515 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: 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