1592984518000 1312637261000 Standard Record object-139823 1753812123945 1611661802000 1753812119012 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-139823 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/139823 7cde1aa5-b8f9-35f1-ba04-8e8c600fadb0 5 reference agent-188892 adlib-agent-188892 c22d854b-9d59-3b7f-8d45-5cf1706ad7bc Doistau, Félix person reference agent-152195 adlib-agent-152195 f6ba28af-cca8-3a73-b996-016112c8deb7 horseman reference term-107563 adlib-term-107563 38dcd825-1de1-3222-82c6-15a95729b5ff enamels reference term-32638 adlib-term-32638 97b8d1a5-7b8f-3a2a-a275-7d001aeaae2b enamel Decoration reference term-121144 adlib-term-121144 b3476a15-2afb-3808-b97e-70c4ade94c8e champlevé enamelling Applied Arts copper and champlevé enamel Copper, raised, engraved, champlevé and enamelled. The shallow circular bowl has a narrow rim, and a spout on the left side. In the centre there is a circular medallion enclosing a man on horseback with a hawk on his wrist and scrolling foliage reserved in a blue enamel ground, framed by a continuous zigzag line reserved in a turquoise band. On the sides there are four white overlapping semi-circular petal outlines each enclosing two figures, a man playing a musical instrument and a woman dancing, except for the outline at the top in which the woman is doing a handstand. In each of the spandrels is a coat-of-arms (two, repeated) flanked by scrolling foliage reserved in a turquoise ground. On the back is a rosette engraved on the base with eight petals at the centre, and nineteen godrons to the edge. M.11-1921 1 accession number M.11-1921 139823 priref 139823 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/139823 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/139823 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Given by the Rt. Hon. F. Leverton-Harris reference agent-151483 adlib-agent-151483 26fbb332-a159-3961-80ad-ff1bd1a618c2 Harris, Frederick Leverton 1921 1921 1921 given Entry date: 1921 1217 1217 CE 1217 circa 1217 1249 1 1249 CE 1249 1249 workshop reference agent-149652 adlib-agent-149652 0d4f90dc-b166-3d4b-b0db-25f4118b6e98 Unknown Gemellions (from the Latin, gemellus, a twin) were basins used in pairs for hand washing. Water was poured from a spouted bowl onto the hands held over the other bowl. This was an important preparation for eating as forks were not used at meals. This bowl bears the arms of Hugh X de Lusignan, comte de la Marche (d. 1249), who in 1217 mar¬ried Isabelle, or Elisabeth, only daugh¬ter of Aymar I, comte d’Ang¬oul¬eme (d. 1218) and Alix de Courte¬nai (d. c. 1245). But the basin does not bear the arms of Angouleme. See Documentation, Marquet de Vasselot, 1952. reference term-125334 adlib-term-125334 b818e9ff-b105-37c5-86a1-a24db946c00f 13th Century, first half reference term-10603 adlib-term-10603 09088083-a78d-3d70-9f4f-343b5c3283d7 Medieval reference term-15498 adlib-term-15498 61725bf5-360f-3837-8aab-3c90b956a537 literal France France country literal Haute Vienne Haute Vienne region Limoges reference term-39741 adlib-term-39741 47d44741-af05-37c3-b21e-0e278b114f3b copper alloy Diameter cm 22.6 Height cm 3.7 Width cm 23.6 reference media-115269 adlib-media-115269 433bdbce-0d73-32a3-b018-77379cfecd70 jpeg aa/aa20/M_11_1921.jpg 1 height pixels 661 width pixels 760 1616251159037 1 image jpeg aa/aa20/mid_M_11_1921.jpg 1 height pixels 435 width pixels 500 1616251159037 1 image jpeg aa/aa20/M_11_1921.jpg 1 height pixels 661 width pixels 760 1616251159037 1 image jpeg aa/aa20/preview_M_11_1921.jpg 1 height pixels 217 width pixels 250 1616251159037 1 image 0 media image reference term-125333 adlib-term-125333 6834ad44-beb1-3b5e-b91b-46703077dd53 gemellion object name reference term-123146 adlib-term-123146 6df95f4b-c04f-39e4-8f0c-99bc1b18c8b5 champlevé enamels category spouted bowl history note Félix Doistau; sold Hotel Drouot, 22-25 November 1909, Catalogue des objets D'art et de haute curiosité, émaux champlevés, ivories . . . . le tout dépendant des Collections de M. Félix Doistau, lot 114; purchased in Rome by the Right Hon. F. Leverton Harris reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Ref. The author cites various references to the use of two basins in hand-washing during the later middle ages, and provides a list of gemellions known to him 137-42 reference publication-200002275 adlib-publication-200002275 a1839b5f-55b3-31fb-9437-bb0b30482db0 untitled letter Publ. p. 30, lot 114, illustrated opposite 30 reference publication-6505 adlib-publication-6505 03c091c3-b2a5-3c07-95c0-76b9174bce7d Catalogue des objets d'art et de haute curiosité, émaux champlevés, ivories, antiques, bijoux, clés, serrures, armes, ustensiles, médailles, plaquettes, bronzes, sculptures, meubles, tapisseries, tapis vitrines, tableaux anciens . . . le tout dépendant des Collections de M. Félix Doistau Publ. pp. 60-1, no. 53, where there is a full description, provenance, and explanation of the arms 1-126 reference publication-200002276 adlib-publication-200002276 af2f16a4-fcc4-3ead-8afe-c856183ed556 Les Gémellions Limousins du XIIIe siècle reference publication-200002852 adlib-publication-200002852 6e3312f8-4b27-3ea9-9e31-358322187155 D'or et d'émaux: les gémellions armoriés de Limoges dans l'emblématique au XIIIe siècle Cf. pp. 27-8, nos 35-6 and figs. 9-10, gemellions with armorials 27-8 reference publication-5202 adlib-publication-5202 4b2e367b-8b7e-3eb5-95b6-3e334ccc5fb4 Medieval Enamels, Masterpieces from the Keir Collection Cf. pp. 374-5, nos. 132-3, gemellions with armorials. See also two gemellions without arms but with courtly subjects, pp. 366-7, no. 126 and p. 368, no. 127. 374-5 reference publication-6310 adlib-publication-6310 6bc09acb-83e9-3889-af97-3241c348dcd8 L'Oeuvre de Limoges, Emaux limousins du Moyen Age reference term-113754 adlib-term-113754 c4f07db0-f41d-3ed0-9940-b7edd83ca62e Gothic object name reference term-110720 adlib-term-110720 a3c10876-e889-3e8d-a458-73e817c04520 coat-of-arms animal reference term-87504 adlib-term-87504 4f19a496-0993-3f9c-9470-9f3a41451866 falcon literal coat-of-arms coat-of-arms literal falcon falcon

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