1592970669000 1312637261000 Standard Record object-156434 1765994447488 1711382013000 1765994444851 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-156434 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/156434 6b4848b6-c84d-3682-90b5-0185bd230b80 8 Edwin Henry Lawrence (1819-91), a nephew of the painter, Sir Thomas Lawrence, RA, was a successful stockbroker, who lived at 84 Holland Park, London. He was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1866, and is chiefly remembered for his collection of Ancient Egyptian and Cypriote antiquities. reference agent-184634 adlib-agent-184634 82f1e852-9d66-3b68-a3ed-389e6a0579f0 Lawrence, Edwin Henry person reference agent-179391 adlib-agent-179391 fda96380-058b-3b9f-ba30-bddc94a12bb8 Saint Elizabeth person reference agent-149856 adlib-agent-149856 46245875-5597-353d-bb62-d85f9cb71b88 beggar reference term-107563 adlib-term-107563 38dcd825-1de1-3222-82c6-15a95729b5ff enamels reference term-125750 adlib-term-125750 2b10ac09-63c3-34ed-87d5-487058c1c344 Limoges painted enamels reference term-120007 adlib-term-120007 00af7c97-d937-3d5c-a1af-d2a83fe2785b Frank McClean blue, green, pink, red, brown, mulberry, grey, black, and white reference term-32638 adlib-term-32638 97b8d1a5-7b8f-3a2a-a275-7d001aeaae2b enamel reference term-39593 adlib-term-39593 e3e2a3f8-2433-3f63-9bcf-e776644d312d gold Decoration rectangular, slightly convex copper plaque with a small hole at top centre and at bottom centre. The left side curves inwards slightly; enamelled in blue, green, pink, red, brown, mulberry, grey, black, and white, and gilded. The counter-enamel is clear but appears uneven dark red. blue, green, pink, red, brown, mulberry, grey, black, and white enamels reference term-28662 adlib-term-28662 dd47e505-ccda-3f2b-b576-6104109430e8 enamelling reference term-28681 adlib-term-28681 c1f659e2-1209-31cf-8ff4-154e11452559 gilding reference term-39588 adlib-term-39588 b17ff981-06b2-30a2-b9a9-b514fe84a191 copper Plaque reference term-107707 adlib-term-107707 cbae1ed2-5069-35db-a029-700dc23ada11 Christian religion Applied Arts rectangular copper plaque painted in polychrome enamels and gilded. St Elizabeth giving alms to a beggar, titled below 'SANCTA.ELISABETHA'; white relief foliage and gold foliage on a black ground in the spandrels. Rectangular, slightly convex copper plaque with a small hole at top centre and at bottom centre, and an inward curve to the left side, enamelled in blue, green, pink, red, brown, mulberry, grey, black, and white, and gilded. The counter-enamel is clear but appears uneven dark red. An oval medallion with a white and gold frame encloses a three-quarter length figure of St Elisabeth giving alms to a beggar. The Saint has a gold crown which forms part of her halo. Her dark brown hair has a centre parting and is ornamented on her left side with three rows of white pearls. Over a pleated mulberry dress, she wears a dark blue cloak with a green lining, and an ermine collar. The folds of the fabric are highlighted by small gold dashes. In her left hand she holds a gold sceptre terminating in a fleur-de-lys, and with her right is about to place a coin into the hat of a beggar approaching from her right. Only the upper part of his body is shown. His right arm is outstretched holding his hat, and his left hand is close to his chest. He wears a mulberry tunic, and a white and red cloth wound round his head. Behind him is a column and a green curtain. Both figures have red fingernails and shading on their hands. The spandrels outside the frame have a black ground decorated with gold foliage, and white foliage in relief. Across the bottom of the plaque is a narrow white label inscribed in black ‘: SANCTA • ELISABETHA’. On the back in black, ‘P. Novailher/esmaillieur/A Limoges’ M.48-1904 1 accession number M.48-1904 156434 priref 156434 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/156434 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/156434 on front of plaque at bottom painted in black enamel SANCTA.ELISABETHA inscription on back painted in black enamel P. Novailher/esmaillieur/A Limoges signature on back near the top hand-written in black Pi ?/S/1/ [1 raised over horizontal line] inscription reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Frank McClean Bequest reference agent-172414 adlib-agent-172414 73d94f64-8c0d-30c1-9764-25b005f3ce1d McClean, Frank 1904 1904 1904 bequeathed Frank McClean died in Brussels on 8 November 1904 1690 1690 CE 1690 circa 1690 1710 previously dated c. 1700-40 but the colouring suggests that it could have been made before 1710 and not as late as1740 1 1710 CE 1710 1710 probably maker reference agent-207865 adlib-agent-207865 e75ee0ce-7ba2-3cf9-8517-cf4a83dcc4a1 Nouailher, Pierre, l'aisné maker reference agent-207866 adlib-agent-207866 26e43dd7-2eb1-3b71-9ccc-57d1ed72af94 Nouailher, Pierre, II St Elizabeth of Hungary was born in 1207, traditionally at Sàrospatak. At the age of fourteen she married Ludwig IV, Landgrave of Thuringia with whom she lived happily until he embarked on the Sixth Crusade, and died at Otranto in Italy in 1227. Elizabeth refused to remarry, and moved to Marburg, where she may have become a tertiary of the Fransiscan order. She founded a hospital, and continued the charitable good works for which she had become famous during her marriage. She died in 1531, and was canonized in 1235 by Gregory IX, and made patroness of the Third Order of St Francis.. Her bones were translated to the church of St Elizabeth at Marburg, which became a pilgrimage centre. In 1539 the Lutheran Landgrave Philip of Hesse had her bones removed to an unknown situation to prevent superstitious practices. She became a popular saint, and depictions of her giving alms occur on plaques, holy water stoups, and reliquary frames (frames with several small relics mounted within them) Rectangular plaques decorated with oval portrait medallions and spandels decorated in relief with stylized foliage, usually in white with gilding on a black ground came into fashion in the second half of the seventeenth century and continued into the early eighteenth. Relief decoration is also found on two-handled bowls, candlesticks, ewers, and purse plaques. This plaque was probably made by Pierre Nouaillier, l'aisné (c. 1657-1717), or his younger brother, Pierre II Nouailher (1665-after 1743). The format and style is similar to others with portraits of Christ, the Virgin, or Saints usually attributed to Pierre II Nouailher, and the signature on the back is similar to that on the reverse of a plaque of St Simon, in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Limoges. His treatment of the facial features, and the halos with wavy rays alternating with groups of shorter straight rays was distinctive, and can be seen on many other plaques. The quality seems inferior to enamels attributed to Pierre I Nouailher, such as the bowl of a cup signed 'P. NOVALHER. ESMAILLEIVR’ in the Walters Art Gallery, or three two-handled cups in the Louvre. But the dark colouring suggests that it was made before about 1720, as the colouring of painted enamels became brighter and paler towards the middle of the century. reference term-120948 adlib-term-120948 709dd310-07e3-34e8-9f19-225896efdf8c 17th Century, Late-18th Century, Early reference term-15498 adlib-term-15498 61725bf5-360f-3837-8aab-3c90b956a537 literal France France country literal Haute Vienne Haute Vienne region Limoges Height cm 10.4 Width cm 8.5 reference media-136141 adlib-media-136141 f91bf752-d3be-38fd-af81-d43ba2c19b27 jpeg aa/aa20/M_48_1904_20_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 760 width pixels 618 1742591839500 1 image jpeg aa/aa20/mid_M_48_1904_20_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 615 width pixels 500 1742591839500 1 image jpeg aa/aa20/M_48_1904_20_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 760 width pixels 618 1742591839500 1 image jpeg aa/aa20/preview_M_48_1904_20_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 307 width pixels 250 1742591839500 1 image 0 media image reference media-136142 adlib-media-136142 a8e4f7ac-69f9-35a2-bbd1-ee5fe1c6b099 jpeg aa/aa20/M_48_1904_20_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 760 width pixels 633 1742591857131 1 image jpeg aa/aa20/mid_M_48_1904_20_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 600 width pixels 500 1742591857131 1 image jpeg aa/aa20/M_48_1904_20_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 760 width pixels 633 1742591857131 1 image jpeg aa/aa20/preview_M_48_1904_20_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 300 width pixels 250 1742591857131 1 image 1 media image reference media-584257070 portfolio portfolio-media-584257070 203cbb3d-6d0c-3627-a6f8-f3d2d568fff1 jpeg portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/505/229/large_M_48_1904_1_200801_mfj22_mas.jpg 1 height pixels 1536 width pixels 1024 1529370776000 1 image jpeg portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/505/229/mid_M_48_1904_1_200801_mfj22_mas.jpg 1 height pixels 750 width pixels 500 1529370776000 1 image M.48-1904_1_200801_mfj22_mas.tif 1529370776000 1 1 image jpeg portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/505/229/preview_M_48_1904_1_200801_mfj22_mas.jpg 1 height pixels 375 width pixels 250 1529370776000 1 image pyramid tiff portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/505/229/M_48_1904_1_200801_mfj22_mas.ptif 1 height pixels 4992 width pixels 3328 1529370776000 1 image 2 media image reference media-859287071 portfolio portfolio-media-859287071 276643da-7d43-3b22-985a-e34fe74f269f jpeg portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/505/230/large_M_48_1904_2_200801_mfj22_mas.jpg 1 height pixels 1536 width pixels 1024 1529370777000 1 image jpeg portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/505/230/mid_M_48_1904_2_200801_mfj22_mas.jpg 1 height pixels 750 width pixels 500 1529370777000 1 image M.48-1904_2_200801_mfj22_mas.tif 1529370777000 1 1 image jpeg portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/505/230/preview_M_48_1904_2_200801_mfj22_mas.jpg 1 height pixels 375 width pixels 250 1529370777000 1 image pyramid tiff portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/505/230/M_48_1904_2_200801_mfj22_mas.ptif 1 height pixels 4870 width pixels 3247 1529370777000 1 image 3 media image reference term-107484 adlib-term-107484 935e21d3-0b7f-3ca6-9987-b79c82e054fd plaque history note Not lot 247 in the Magniac Collection sale as stated by Dalton, 1912. Edwin H. Lawrence, FSA (1819-91); Christie’s, 4-6 May 1892, 2nd day, second part of lot 168; Frank McClean, MA, FRS (1837–1904) ; bequeathed by him 1 same provenance reference object-156432 adlib-object-156432 5e825690-10f0-33ed-a6e0-2dbb0eb47e3d

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plaque reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Publ., p. 115, no. 74. Not 247 in Magniac sale as stated by Dalton. 115 reference publication-4060 adlib-publication-4060 0f6d91a4-87ab-338c-b868-7d56c66bc250 Fitzwilliam Museum, McClean Bequest, Catalogue of the Mediaeval Ivories, Enamels, Jewellery, Gems and Miscellaneous Objects Bequeathed to the Museum by Frank McClean, M.A., F.R.S. Ref. pp. 155-6, for Saint Elizabeth 155-6 reference publication-4997 adlib-publication-4997 ba4ddd50-47c1-39de-a05b-b52317cb4138 The Oxford Dictionary of Saints Cf. p. 348-9, no. 186, the bowl of cup attributed to Pierre I 348-0 reference publication-6021 adlib-publication-6021 6dafbb49-bc39-3d0c-b5ad-634dbead2cf0 The Walters Art Gallery, Catalogue of the Painted Enamels of the Renaissance Cf. p. 415, no. MR 2634 (other inv. N. 1421) the Virgin and Child with similar signature except for no s in 'esmailleur'. The treatment of the eyes, which Baratte singles out as characteristic of this enameller are comparable to those of the saint on the Fitzwilliam's plaque. Cf. also pp. 412-4, nos. MR 4269, MR 2468 and MR 2451, attributed to Pierre I. 415 reference publication-6073 adlib-publication-6073 273632b3-da99-366e-9c3b-efd466467b8e Les émaux peints de Limoges. Musée du Louvre, Département des objets d'art Ref. p. 400 for the dates of Pierre Nouailher, l’ainé (I), c. 1657 to 28 September 1717. His brother, Pierre, came of age c. 1690. 400 reference publication-6116 adlib-publication-6116 bbff1ced-945e-3b6f-8556-b6eedf278dea Le métier d’émailleur à Limoges, XVIe-XVIIe siècle Cf. pp. 222-24, nos. 70-72, plaques respectively of Saint Simon, Saint Bernard and Saint Charles Borromeo, in grisaille with flesh tones, and gilding, signed .P.Nouailher/emailleur/a Limoges on the reverse, the first in gold, the other two in black. 222-224 reference publication-6142 adlib-publication-6142 517e6c62-56b3-3ca3-8314-d7e94fafb6e2 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 reference term-10624 adlib-term-10624 c882b99a-0b49-320e-8d8a-fd72a34d8848 Baroque reference term-108497 adlib-term-108497 d7af9098-e473-3df9-bca4-26e80dc51d7d giving reference term-22417 adlib-term-22417 92d0e672-9125-3660-9c7a-3fb880baccb0 charity literal giving giving

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