Old Master Sculpture & Works of Art
Old Master Sculpture & Works of Art
FRENCH, LIMOGES, EARLY 16TH CENTURY | PLAQUE WITH THE ADORATION OF THE CHRIST CHILD
Auction Closed
July 2, 02:29 PM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
FRENCH, LIMOGES, EARLY 16TH CENTURY
PLAQUE WITH THE ADORATION OF THE CHRIST CHILD
partially gilt and enamelled copper, in a later silvered copper frame
the frame inscribed: venite adoremus dominum and with a later engraving of a coat of arms, possibly those of the Van den Ende family of Holland on the reverse; with two labels to the reverse inscribed THOS. F. FLANNERY COLL. CHICAGO, one numbered: 14, the other: 999 / A and with two further labels inscribed in ink: H311 and 12438
10.5 by 8.7cm., 4⅛ by 3⅜in.
With Raphael Stora, New York;
Thomas F. Flannery Collection Jr., Chicago, by 1970;
his sale, Sotheby's London, 1 December 1983, lot 214
The thick lines, rounded faces and summary architecture that give the present enamel its late Gothic appearance relate closely to works attributed to the workshop of the Master of the Orléans triptych and the Master of the Large Foreheads which were both active around 1500. A number of enamels in The Walters Art Gallery attributed to these workshops by Verdier (op. cit.) compare well to the present enamel.
RELATED LITERATURE
P. Verdier, Catalogue of the painted enamels of the Renaissance, cat. Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, 1967, pp. 31-33, 36-39, 42-43, nos. 20, 22 and 24