IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 139841 accession number: M.4-1966 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 4 March 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Copper, enamelled in blue, pale bluish-green, flesh-pink, mulberry, and white on a black background, and gilded. Hexagonal with a circular depression in the top and bottom, projecting top and bottom edges, and straight sides. In the salt pan there is a bust of a woman wearing a cap and elaborate coiffeur in profile to left, against a black background semé with gilt heraldic tears (gouttes), and surrounded by a border of three pairs of adorsed turquoise-green and mulberry foliated scrolls terminating in small white flowers, and three pairs of pale blue and turquoise-green. In the depression on the base is a bust of a man wearing armour and a parade helmet in profile to left surrounded by gold ‘tadpoles’ and enclosed by a gold line broken by groups of short oblique strokes. The border comprises small flowers on gold stalks flanked by pairs of feathery leaves: turquoise-green paired with blue; mulberry paired with turquoise-green; and blue paired with mulberry, repeated on the next three facets. The six sides are decorated respectively with Cupid standing beside a rock holding a gold arrow in his right hand, and a gold knot on a string in his left; a putto standing beside a small tree and holding aloft a bowl of fruit , a putto walking to the left holding a basket with a gold knot above his head; a putto sitting on the ground with a gold thread around his left leg and knot above, and overhead, a dove holding a gold necklace in its beak; a putto kneeling on a block of stone and beating a small drum; and a putto seated on a rock holding up a billowing drape. All have gold hair. At the top of each angle there is a half sunburst in gold. At the top and bottom there is a narrow gold line broken by five or six short oblique strokes. object type: Copper decorated with polychrome enamels and gilding with a female head on the top, a male head on the base, and on one side Cupid holding an arrow, and on each of the other sides a putto title: salt NOTES ----- type: history note value: Cyril Humphris Ltd., London, from whom purchased by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/139841 PEOPLE ------------------- Cupid CATEGORIES ------ category: enamels category: Limoges painted enamels DATING ------ creation date: 1540 - 1550 creation date earliest: 1540 creation date latest: 1550 culture: 16th Century, Mid CREATORS -------- maker: Reymond, Pierre DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 5 dimension: Width units: cm value: 7.5 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Feast and Fast: The Art of Food in Europe (1500-1800) CITATIONS -------- Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Fifty-eighth Annual Report, for the Year 1966 Feast & Fast. The Art of Food in Europe 1500-1800 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 The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Glass and Limoges Painted Enamels Limoges Painted Enamels: evidence for specialist copper-smithing workshops Roman Children’s Sarcophagi: their Decoration and its Social Significance Inventing the Renaissance Putto --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/M_4_1966_20_281_29.jpg height: 671 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/mid_M_4_1966_20_281_29.jpg height: 441 pixels width: 499 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/M_4_1966_20_281_29.jpg height: 671 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview 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