IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 139844 accession number: M.51-1904 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 January 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Copper, raised, and decorated in three techniques: enamelling en grisaille on a black ground and gilded; enamelling in blue, green, yellow, orange-red, pale manganese/mulberry, and black on a white ground; and enamelling in blue, turquoise, green, yellow, and mulberry translucent enamels over silver foils in a black ground, and gilded. The hexafoil bowl has lobed sides rising from a slightly convex hexagonal base, and two small S-shaped handles on opposing sides In the middle, framed by two gold lines is a hexagonal panel executed in grisaille on a black ground of Cupid riding on a lion walking to the left. Cupid has a quiver of gold arrows slung on his back by a gold strap, and controls the lion by means of a gold leash passing through its mouth. The lion has gold toe nails and some of Cupid’s wavy hair is gold. On the left edge ‘omnia uinci amor’(Love conquers all) is inscribed in gold The initials ‘•I•L•’ in black are inscribed in front of the lion’s left rear paw. The sides have a white ground decorated with blue, pale mulberry, and red and yellow flowers on black stems with green foliage, amongst which, on three lobes, there is a fanciful bird. Round the rim is a border of black petals with vertically striated semi-circular centres. On the hexagonal base framed by black and gold lines there is a landscape in which is a white house with a red roof beside a stream, with a clump of trees behind it. Four small flocks of birds fly through the opaque pale blue sky. The black sides are decorated with stylized flowers and gold foliage, amongst which, on two lobes, is a fanciful bird in translucent enamels over silver foils. The handles are black with remnants of a gold line following its S-shape. object type: copper decorated en grisaille and polychrome enamels and gilded. Cupid riding on a lion with the inscription 'omnia vinci amor (Love conquers all) and signed '‘•I•L•’; on the sides floral sprays and birds; and on the back a central landscape, surrounded by stylized floral sprays. title: two-handled bowl NOTES ----- type: history note value: Unknown before Frank McClean, MA, FRS (1837-1904) LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: Frank McClean creditline: Frank McClean Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/139844 PEOPLE ------------------- Cupid SUBJECTS ------------------- lion flower lion flower TECHNIQUES ---------- copper, raised, enamelled in grisaille on a black ground and gilded; painted in blue, green, yellow, orange-red, pale manganese/mulberry, and black enamels on a white ground; and enamelled in blue, turquoise, green, yellow, and mulberry translucent enamels over silver foils reserved in a black ground, and gilded. raising (metal forming process) CATEGORIES ------ category: enamels DATING ------ creation date: 1650 - 1695 creation date earliest: 1650 creation date latest: 1695 culture: 17th Century, second half# culture: Louis XIV (1638-1715) CREATORS -------- maker: Laudin, Jacques I DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 3.7 dimension: Width units: cm value: 15.5 CITATIONS -------- 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. 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