IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 162103 accession number: M.45-1904 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 3 July 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Carved and gilt wood frame with scrolled edges set with fifteen (orginally seventeen) copper plaques, enamelled partly over foils in royal blue, pale and dark turquoise, pale green, greyish-green, bright pink, dark red, purple, buff, several shades of brown, black and white enamel, and profusely gilded. The counter enamel on the central plaque is thick and uneven dark brown; the reverses of the other plaques are not visible. The central oval plaque is enamelled with the Adoration of the Magi taking place outside a building of which the door and an external archway above a wall are visible. Joseph stands on the left bending towards the Virgin who sits on the ground holding the Christ Child on her lap. One of the kings kneels before her, and the other two approach from behind him, the first carrying a casket and the next a column-shaped vase. In the foreground there is a covered vase, and standing dish with flames in its bowl. The sky is scattered with gold stars and at the top of the plaque there is a comet. In the frame above there is a smaller horizontal convex oval plaque of God the Father surrounded by a gold background and pale purple cloud scrolls. He has outstretched arms and wears a red gown and a swirling blue drape. The details of his hair and beard are gold, and his garments and striated and dotted in gold. Above there are two small curved plaques decorated with gold stars on a black ground. On either side are circular plaques bearing the symbols of St Luke (angel) and St John (eagle) and below, attached to the top of the oval frame, on the right St Matthew (an ox). St Mark on the left (a lion) is missing. In the frame below the central plaque there is a small oval horizontal oval plaque bearing a chalice and instruments of the Passion, flanked by five-sided plaques decorated with gold stars on a black ground. There are four smaller similarly-decorated four-sided plaques below. Signed and dated on the reverse of the central plaque painted in gold object type: Carved and gilt wood frame enclosing fifteeen copper plaques enamelled in polychrome enamels over foil paillons, and gilt title: plaques in frame NOTES ----- type: history note value: unknown before donor LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: Frank McClean creditline: F. MacClean Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/162103 PEOPLE ------------------- Virgin Mary Christ Magi angel SUBJECTS ------------------- chalice ladder comet Adoration of the Magi chalice ladder comet Adoration of the Magi CATEGORIES ------ category: enamels DATING ------ creation date: 1860 - 1885 creation date earliest: 1860 creation date latest: 1885 culture: 19th Century, second half# CREATORS -------- maker: Robillard, Julien maker: Unidentified CITATIONS -------- La Rencontre des Héros, Regards croisées sur les émaux peints de la Renaissance appartenant aux collections du Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris et du Musée municipal de L'Évêché de Limoges Le métier d’émailleur à Limoges, XVIe-XVIIe siècle Limozhskie raspisnye ėmali v sobranii Ėrmitazha/Émaux peints de Limoges de la collection de l'Ermitage Tableaux Anciens, Mobilier et Objets d’Art The Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory: Alexandre Brongniart and The Triumph of Art and Industry, 1800-1847 Jacob Meyer-Heine (1805-1879) et l’atelier d’émaillage sur métaux à la manufacture de Sèvres Old Master Sculpture & Works of Art Bel ameublement provenant de Châteaux du val de Loire provenant des châteaux de l'Aiglerie en Anjou, de Meslay en Vendômois et de diverses collections parisiennes, bourguignonne et du Val de Loire --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/M_45_1904_20_281_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 501 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/mid_M_45_1904_20_281_29.jpg height: 758 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/M_45_1904_20_281_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 501 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/preview_M_45_1904_20_281_29.jpg height: 379 pixels width: 250 pixels 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