IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 156454 accession number: M.10A & B-1938 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 27 February 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Two joined narrow slightly convex rectangular copper plaques enamelled over dark and white layers in translucent blue, green, red, tan, mulberry-brown, and opaque white, and gilded The flowers and jewels are backed with silver foil. On the left plaque (A), Mary Magdalene stands in profile to right holding an ointment pot in her left hand and raising its conical lid in her right. She wears a blue and white headscarf which billows out behind her, a mulberry brown dress and a royal blue cloak. Behind her there is a tan-coloured wattle fence with a lychgate on the left. In front of her is half of a tree with a tall narrow trunk and a round top with leaves and flowers with white petals and blue or mulberry centres. On the right panel (B), Christ stands facing three-quarters to the left, raising his right hand. to prevent the approach of Mary Magdalene, and showing the bleeding wound in his hand. Blood also trickles from his side and from the thorn wounds in his head. He has a dark brown cloak held together with a green brooch. In his left hand he holds the staff of a cross with a pennant. Behind him there is a tan wattle fence and to the left, half of a tree matching that on the other plaque.The ground of both plaques is green with numerous plants bearing daisy-like flowers with blue or red centres and white petals. The sky at the top of both panels is closely strewn with gold stars. The rectangular gilt-metal frame has applied ornaments of a twisted stem with a leaf on each end: two on the top and bottom, and three on he sides. The outer frame is of red velvet, extremely worn on the edge. The back of the plaque is covered by a red damask-covered board with a hinged prop in the centre of more recent manufacture. object type: Copper, enamelled in polychrome with Mary Magdalene encountering Christ after his resurrection title: plaque NOTES ----- type: history note value: Possibly George Frederick Samuel Robinson (1827-1909), London and Studley Royal, Yorkshire, 1st Marquess of Ripon and 3rd Earl de Grey (1859); certainly his son, Frederick Oliver Robinson, 2nd Marquess of Ripon, and 4th Earl de Grey, GCVO, FRS, (1852-1923), Studley Royal, Yorkshire; his cousin, Clare Vyner, Esq., Studley Royal, Yorkshire; sold Sotheby's, 19 March 1926, Catalogue of the well-known collection of old English wine glasses, etc. the property of Henry Peech Esq., . . . . A Fine large enamel, Japanese Imari ware . . . the property of Clare Vyner Esq., removed from Studley Royal. From the collection of the late Marquess of Ripon, p. 13, lot 78; sold to S.J. Phillips. 113 New Bond Street, London, W1, for £410 on behalf of Leonard D. Cunliffe (1860-1937), 109 Eaton Square, London, and Trelissick, Cornwall; bequeathed by him LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: Leonard D. Cunliffe creditline: L.D. Cunliffe Bequest, 1937 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/156454 PEOPLE ------------------- Robinson, Frederick Oliver (1852-1923) Christ Mary Magdalene SUBJECTS ------------------- prayer cross pennant fence ointment jar flower tree lychgate cross pennant fence ointment jar flower tree lychgate CATEGORIES ------ category: enamels category: Limoges painted enamels DATING ------ creation date: 1500 - 1525 creation date earliest: 1500 creation date latest: 1525 culture: 16th Century, Early# CREATORS -------- maker: Penicaud, Nardon CITATIONS -------- Objets d’art du Moyen Age et de la Renaissance : Collections du château de Goluchow Les émaux limousins de la fin du XVe siècle et de la première partie du XVIe; étude sur Nardon Penicaud et ses contemporains Limoges Painted Enamels, Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries 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/M_10_1938_20_281_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 596 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/mid_M_10_1938_20_281_29.jpg height: 638 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/M_10_1938_20_281_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 596 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/preview_M_10_1938_20_281_29.jpg height: 319 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/M_10_1938_20_282_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 592 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/mid_M_10_1938_20_282_29.jpg height: 642 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/M_10_1938_20_282_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 592 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/preview_M_10_1938_20_282_29.jpg height: 321 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/505/29/large_M_10_1938_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/505/29/mid_M_10_1938_1_200801_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 750 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/M.10-1938_1_200801_mfj22_mas.tif surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/505/29/preview_M_10_1938_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/505/29/M_10_1938_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/505/30/large_M_10_1938_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/505/30/mid_M_10_1938_2_200801_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 750 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/M.10-1938_2_200801_mfj22_mas.tif surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/505/30/preview_M_10_1938_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/505/30/M_10_1938_2_200801_mfj22_mas.ptif height: 4992 pixels width: 3328 pixels