15929910760001312637261000Standard Recordobject-139844170966176099617066196200001709661757485fitz-onlineadlib-object-139844https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/139844d3703ac9-6773-3ec6-88ec-97cd97cb709311personreferenceagent-150796adlib-agent-150796ec5a0c8a-e54c-3735-adea-0fd5dd14f994Cupidreferenceterm-107563adlib-term-10756338dcd825-1de1-3222-82c6-15a95729b5ffenamelsreferenceterm-120007adlib-term-12000700af7c97-d937-3d5c-a1af-d2a83fe2785bFrank McCleanopaque blue, green, yellow, orange-red, pale mulberry, white, and blackreferenceterm-32638adlib-term-3263897b8d1a5-7b8f-3a2a-a275-7d001aeaae2benameltranslucent turquoise, green, yellow, and mulberryreferenceterm-32638adlib-term-3263897b8d1a5-7b8f-3a2a-a275-7d001aeaae2benamelreferenceterm-109906adlib-term-109906cbea03fb-f9ac-3c28-ab2d-d20a955a2b53silver foilreferenceterm-39593adlib-term-39593e3e2a3f8-2433-3f63-9bcf-e776644d312dgoldDecorationin blue, green, yellow, orange-red, pale mulberry, and black on a white ground; and enamelled in blue, turquoise, green, yellow, and mulberry translucent enamels over silver foils on a black groundreferenceterm-28662adlib-term-28662dd47e505-ccda-3f2b-b576-6104109430e8enamellingreferenceterm-28681adlib-term-28681c1f659e2-1209-31cf-8ff4-154e11452559gildingApplied Artscopper 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.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.M.51-19041accession numberM.51-1904139844priref139844urihttps://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/139844https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/139844inside in centrepainted in goldomnia uinci amorinscriptioninside in front of the lion’s left rear paw.painted in black•I•L•initialsreferenceagent-149638adlib-agent-1496387376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8The Fitzwilliam MuseumFrank McClean Bequestreferenceagent-172414adlib-agent-17241473d94f64-8c0d-30c1-9764-25b005f3ce1dMcClean, Frank190419041904bequeathed16501650CE1650circa1650169511695CE16951695makerreferenceagent-76511adlib-agent-76511228a38d9-7ce2-33f4-a19e-e240d6a0ac52Laudin, Jacques ISmall enamelled two-handled bowls or cups with hexafoil or circular rims became fashionable in the mid 17th century and large numbers of them have survived. Most of them are decorated on the base with a landscape, surrounded by stylized flowers and birds in translucent enamels over foils in a black ground embellished with gold foliage. Others have floral decoration on a white ground. The central medallion inside may be of a religious, classical, or other secular subjects, and the interior sides are usually decorated with polychrome flowers and birds on a white ground in either a continuous band or in panels. Many of them bear the initials ‘.I.L.’ and these have usually been attributed to Jacques Laudin I (c. 1627-95), for example by Darcel and Marquet de Vasselot, although it is possible that some of them were executed by his nephew Jacques II Laudin (c. 1663-1729). However, the decoration of the reverse of the Fitzwilliam’s bowl, resembles that on other pieces attributed to Jacques I Laudin.
Cupid riding a lion, emblematic of the power of Love, accompanied by the inscription ‘omnia vincit amor’ from Virgil’s Eclogues, X, 69: ‘omnia vincit Amor: et nos cedamus Amori.’ (Love conquers all; let us, too, yield to Love’) was a popular one in the 17th century. A a circular image appeared with a fiercer lion, as the first plate in the earliest Dutch emblem book by Daniël Heinsius, published untitled in 1601 but known as Quaeris quid sit amor? and titled, Emblemata amatoria, in the second edition of 1611.
The emblem occurs on four more hexafoil bowls: in the Fitzwilliam (M.3-1928), the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Limoges (101); and the Musée d’Art et d’Archéologie, Guéret (2009.0.335), and one unlocated, sold in Paris in 2004. Four vupd with circular rims are respectively in the the Ashmolean Museum (OA 248), the Victoria and Albert Museum (C.23-1923), the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Limoges (94), and the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dijon (CA T 1322). The shape of another, formerly in the Königliche Kunstkammer Berlin, (Inv. I.G.179), but now lost is not certain, but may have been of hexafoil form as it was not described as having a footring. Several others were mentioned in 19th century French and English sales.referenceterm-118735adlib-term-1187351631bde8-d0c4-3507-be3b-ac03c59ba80717th Century, second half#referenceterm-15536adlib-term-1553602571f2e-a606-30c6-a49e-85d820d4a0cdLouis XIV (1638-1715)referenceterm-15498adlib-term-1549861725bf5-360f-3837-8aab-3c90b956a537literalFranceFrancecountryliteralHaute VienneHaute VienneregionLimogesreferenceterm-39588adlib-term-39588b17ff981-06b2-30a2-b9a9-b514fe84a191copperHeightcm3.7Widthcm15.5referencemedia-115292adlib-media-11529215d7533a-a3df-37b2-8416-42f6f0a87e45jpegaa/aa20/M_51_1904_20_281_29.jpg1heightpixels533widthpixels76016162424037321imagejpegaa/aa20/mid_M_51_1904_20_281_29.jpg1heightpixels351widthpixels50016162424037321imagejpegaa/aa20/M_51_1904_20_281_29.jpg1heightpixels533widthpixels76016162424037321imagejpegaa/aa20/preview_M_51_1904_20_281_29.jpg1heightpixels175widthpixels25016162424037321image0media
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imagereferenceterm-110738adlib-term-110738a8f23b56-f94b-382c-8fff-655ab61c4b31two-handled bowlobject namereferenceterm-125750adlib-term-1257502b10ac09-63c3-34ed-87d5-487058c1c344Limoges painted enamelscategoryhistory noteUnknown before Frank McClean, MA, FRS (1837-1904)1referenceobject-156451adlib-object-15645112434926-833f-3f09-9a03-24b170b5502b1reference1term-125337adlib-term-1253372de10141-9f91-31f1-9387-f83efb667e2btwo handed bowltwo handed bowlreferenceagent-149638adlib-agent-1496387376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8The Fitzwilliam MuseumPubl., p. 114, no. 71114referencepublication-4060adlib-publication-40600f6d91a4-87ab-338c-b868-7d56c66bc250Fitzwilliam 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. p. 386 for biographical details based on archival sources for Jacques Laudin I, and p. 388, for his nephew, Jacques Laudin II.386, 388referencepublication-6116adlib-publication-6116bbff1ced-945e-3b6f-8556-b6eedf278deaLe métier d’émailleur à Limoges, XVIe-XVIIe sièclereferencepublication-7141adlib-publication-7141e32855a0-ee12-381a-923f-b8e47a7dd72bCatalogue descriptif des objets d’art formant le musée Anthelme et Edma TrimoletCf. Sixth Day, 12th June, p. 77, lot 795, 'A small two-handled Tazza' with Cupid riding a lion in the centre by J. Laudin, and lot 797 another with Cupid in the centre (no lion mentioned) by J. Laudin, from Hamilton Palace, both with landscapes on the base77referencepublication-5969adlib-publication-596955cca6d7-4f42-3fb8-a16b-a451b0de3c12Catalogue of the Valuable Collection of Pictures, Works of Art, and Decorative Objects of Christopher Beckett Denison, Esq., Deceased, late of Upper Grosvenor Street, First PortionCf. p. 75, an example with similar central motif of Cupid leading a lion, in the Musée Municipal de l’Éveché, Limoges (Inv. 101), now the Musée des Beaux-Arts: Formerly Durand Collection, 45.2478, given by the state 1875. A lobed bowl, initialed ‘.I.L.’ with crudely painted flowers on the interior. 4 x 12.5 cm.75referencepublication-6074adlib-publication-60742bfe1392-fcb2-38bc-a20d-5b5b1115f22bGuide du Musée Municipal, Collection Égyptienne, ÉmauxCf. p. 158, no. 38, an example with a probably similar central motif, formerly Königliche Kunstkammer Berlin, Inv. I.G.179; now lost. Formerly in the Nagler Collection, acquired in 1935. : Initialled I.L. Landscape on base. H.. 4 cm. D. 14 cm. Inv. no. K 5084. The description does not state whether it was of hexafoil form or circular.158referencepublication-5097adlib-publication-50973f273066-5292-3611-8791-142c76030836Maleremails aus Limoges, Der Bestand des Berliner Kunstgewerbemuseumsreferencepublication-6073adlib-publication-6073273632b3-da99-366e-9c3b-efd466467b8eLes émaux peints de Limoges. Musée du Louvre, Département des objets d'artCf. p. 87, pl. 43, and pp. 263-4, no. 146, an example with Marcus Curtius in the centre surrounded by flowers on a white ground, and on the reverse, a landscape surrounded by coloured decoration on a black ground. Attributed to Jacques I Laudin, mid 17th century. The author lists other examples with different themes for the central plaque, including the Fitzwilliam's.87, 263-4referencepublication-6120adlib-publication-61203031603c-c1e6-3c56-aa2f-a4da4420218fMaleremails des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts aus Limoges, Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum Braunschweig, Kunstmuseum des Landes NiedersachsenCf. two bowls of comparable form, pp. 111-12, and pls. 71-2, with Hercules and six symbols, including a lion, and p. 112, pls. 73-4 with an allegorical female figure and black ground inside and a landscape and white ground with flowers outside.111-12referencepublication-6121adlib-publication-6121edb2cc2b-550b-3473-bce4-a7a6664c85a0Smalti-Avori del Museo d'Arte Anticaanimalreferenceterm-106353adlib-term-10635394dbf2d1-80ce-352d-b3db-fd957b2fd428lionplantreferenceterm-106795adlib-term-106795619c7689-2029-3c57-b0e2-12f5b54bedb8flowerliterallionlionliteralflowerflowerreferenceterm-110738adlib-term-110738a8f23b56-f94b-382c-8fff-655ab61c4b31two-handled bowltwo-handled bowlcopper, 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.referenceterm-28810adlib-term-28810c6a00cef-33f7-3107-8666-d791bd49707craising (metal forming process)object
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