IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 139826 accession number: M.115A-1961 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 January 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Circular copper plate with slightly raised applied edge, narrow sloping rim, shallow curved sides (cavetto), and almost flat centre. On the reverse, there are a series of irregularly placed small holes in the enamel at the junction of the rim and well. The plate has a manganese-black ground. The polychrome design in the well is enamelled over a white layer in translucent bright blue, turquoise, green, yellow, mulberry, and red, with silver foils under the costume and carpet, and in black, opaque white and flesh pink, enhanced by gilding. The reverse is painted in grisaille with flesh pink, and gilding. The well is decorated with Joseph reconciled to his brothers embracing Benjamin. The action takes place in a townscape with on the right, a tower with a buttress; in the middle an arcade with a domed circular building behind it, and on the left a building with a balcony over the doorway. In the foreground there is a blue pavement with tiles decorated in gold with a circular motifs and stylized flower heads. Joseph stands on the right embracing one of his brothers, probably Benjamin, the other ten kneel in the centre. A purple greyhound crouches in the foreground. On the left, Pharaoh sits or stands on a balcony with a red rug hanging from it, and below there are two small standing figures in a doorway and two more approaching them The sky is inscribed in gold "G.XLV." The sides are decorated with gold foliated scrolls with two narrow bold bands below. Above, a band of copper is visible through the enamel. The rim is decorated with two different female masks with draped fabric headdresses, and two different male masks with large ears and earrings, separated by pairs of tritons with tablets on their tails flanking turquoise two-handled vases, with sprays of gold foliage in the background and a very narrow gold band next to the white rim. The reverse is painted in grisaille and flesh-pink with three terms and three flaming torches linked by scrolling strapwork on a black ground decorated with gold ara\'acbesques and scrolls. On the rim between pairs of gold bands there is a wreath of gold laurel leaves and berries. On the strapwork are the initials '"I.C" object type: Copper, the front enamelled in polychrome, partly over silver paillons, and gilded with Joseph reconciled to his brothers embraces Benjamin, and the back in grisaille with a radiating design of terms and torches linked by strapwork. Signed "I.C." in black on white strapwork below one of the torches. title: plate NOTES ----- type: history note value: Baron James de Rothschild (1792-1868); his son Baron Gustave de Rothschild, Paris (1829-1911); his grandchildren Sir Philip Sassoon and the Countess of Rocksavage, sold Christie’s, 26 November 1919, Catalogue of Objects of Art Porcelain & Faience, Fine French Tapestry, the property of Sir Philip Sassoon, BT., M.P., C.M.G., and the Countess of Rocksavage of 25 Park Lane, p. 8, part of lot 63; Walter S. Burns, Esq.,, North Mymms Park, Herts; Mrs Walter Burns; sold Christie's, 28 June 1935, Catalogue of highly important enamels, faience and majolica and works of art, the property of Mrs. Walter Burns (from the Collection of the late Walter S. Burns, Esq.) p. 5, lot 11, part IIII; Louis C.G. Clarke, MA, LL.D. (1881-1960), Cambridge. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: Louis C. G. Clarke creditline: Louis.C.G. Clarke Bequest, 1960 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/139826 PEOPLE ------------------- Rothschild, Gustave de, Baron Burns, Walter S. Joseph Pharoah Benjamin SUBJECTS ------------------- hound townscape Egypt Joseph greets his brothers in Egypt hound townscape Egypt Joseph greets his brothers in Egypt TECHNIQUES ---------- Copper with series of irregularly placed small holes in the enamel at the junction of the rim and well. The plate has a dark mulberry-brown (manganese) ground appearing black. The polychrome design in the well is enamelled over a white layer in translucent bright blue, turquoise, green, yellow, mulberrym and red, with silver foils under the costume and carpet, and in black, opaque white and flesh pink, enhanced by gilding. The reverse is painted in grisaille with flesh pink, and gilding raising (metal forming process) CATEGORIES ------ category: enamels DATING ------ creation date: 1585 - 1600 creation date earliest: 1585 creation date latest: 1600 culture: 16th Century, Late-17th Century, Early# culture: Henry III of France culture: Henry IV of France CREATORS -------- maker: Court dit Vigier, Jean I maker: Court dit Vigier, Jean II DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 19.8 dimension: Height units: cm value: 1.9 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Musée rétrospectif title: Exposition Universelle de 1867 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of objects of art, porcelain and faience and fine French tapestry, the property of Sir Philip Sassoon Bart, MP, CMG and the Countess of Rocksavage of 25 Park Lane Catalogue of highly important enamels, faience and majolica and works of art, the property of Mrs. Walter Burns (from the Collection of the late Walter S. Burns, Esq. L’histoire de Joseph sur des assiettes en émail peint de Limoges par l’atelier portant la marque de fabrique “I.C. Les émaux peints de Limoges. Musée du Louvre, Département des objets d'art Le métier d’émailleur à Limoges, XVIe-XVIIe siècle Bernard Salomon Illustrateur Lyonnais Chronique de l’orfèvrerie et de l’émaillerie anciennes de Limoges en 1912 Catalogue Raisonné: or, a List of the Pictures in Blenheim Palace; with Occasional Remarks and Illustrative Notes, Part I and Part II Catalogue of the Special Loan Exhibition of Enamels on Metal held at the South Kensington Museum London in 1874 The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Glass and Limoges Painted Enamels --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/M_115A_1961_1_200801_mfj22_dc2.jpg height: 780 pixels width: 685 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/mid_M_115A_1961_1_200801_mfj22_dc2.jpg height: 569 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/M_115A_1961_1_200801_mfj22_dc2.jpg height: 780 pixels width: 685 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/preview_M_115A_1961_1_200801_mfj22_dc2.jpg height: 285 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/M_115A_1961_20_282_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 754 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/mid_M_115A_1961_20_282_29.jpg height: 504 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/M_115A_1961_20_282_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 754 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/preview_M_115A_1961_20_282_29.jpg height: 252 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/M_115A_1961.jpg height: 414 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/mid_M_115A_1961.jpg height: 272 pixels width: 499 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/M_115A_1961.jpg height: 414 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/preview_M_115A_1961.jpg height: 136 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/505/56/large_M_115A_1961_1_200801_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 1536 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/505/56/mid_M_115A_1961_1_200801_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 750 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/M.115A-1961_1_200801_mfj22_mas.tif surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/505/56/preview_M_115A_1961_1_200801_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 375 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/505/56/M_115A_1961_1_200801_mfj22_mas.ptif height: 4992 pixels width: 3328 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/505/61/large_M_115A_1961_2_200801_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 1536 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/505/61/mid_M_115A_1961_2_200801_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 750 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/M.115A-1961_2_200801_mfj22_mas.tif surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/505/61/preview_M_115A_1961_2_200801_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 375 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/505/61/M_115A_1961_2_200801_mfj22_mas.ptif height: 4992 pixels width: 3328 pixels