IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 139823 accession number: M.11-1921 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 26 January 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. object type: copper and champlevé enamel title: gemellion NOTES ----- type: history note value: 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 LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by the Rt. Hon. F. Leverton-Harris STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/139823 PEOPLE ------------------- Doistau, Félix horseman SUBJECTS ------------------- coat-of-arms falcon coat-of-arms falcon TECHNIQUES ---------- raising CATEGORIES ------ category: enamels DATING ------ creation date: 1217 - 1249 creation date earliest: 1217 creation date latest: 1249 culture: 13th Century, first half culture: Medieval CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 22.6 dimension: Height units: cm value: 3.7 dimension: Width units: cm value: 23.6 CITATIONS -------- untitled letter 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 Les Gémellions Limousins du XIIIe siècle D'or et d'émaux: les gémellions armoriés de Limoges dans l'emblématique au XIIIe siècle Medieval Enamels, Masterpieces from the Keir Collection L'Oeuvre de Limoges, Emaux limousins du Moyen Age --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/M_11_1921.jpg height: 661 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/mid_M_11_1921.jpg height: 435 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/M_11_1921.jpg height: 661 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/preview_M_11_1921.jpg height: 217 pixels width: 250 pixels