IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 156429 accession number: M.43-1904 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Saturday 23 March 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Three copper plaques, almost flat, and partly foiled in silver, enamelled in translucent royal blue, two shades of green, and mulberry, and opaque flesh, red, white, and black,and gilded. On the centre plaque Christ hangs on a gilded Cross with the word INRI on a titulus above his head. He wears a crown of thorns, and a loin cloth, and blood streams from a wound in his right side. The Virgin Mary stands on the left with her hands extended, wearing a green veil, a royal blue gown over a green skirt, and a purple cloak. St John stands on the right with his hands clasped in prayer. He has long blonde hair and wears a blue gown with green sleeves, and a purple cloak. The cloudy blue sky is scattered with small groups of gold rays, and on the right is a white crescent moon enclosing a profile face. The lower background is uneven dark green. The Saints on the two wings each stand on a green tiled floor beneath an ogee arch supported by diagonally fluted columns with a shallow apse behind them. Above the arches there are circular medallions, reserved in a black ground, that on the left wing occupied by a bearded man in profile to right wearing a turquoise helmet, and that on the right by a a clean-shaven man three-quarters to left wearing a green helmet. On the left wing St James is depicted as a pilgrim holding a staff in his right hand and an open book in his left. He is bearded, and barefooted, and wears a green hat, blue gown, and a dark bluish-green cloak. On the other wing St Catherine holds the hilt of a sword in her right hand, and an open book in her left. She wears a gold crown, a purple gown over a dark blue petticoat, and a royal blue cloak. The outlines of the costume, the architectural features, and medallions are gilded, and there are gold foliated scrolls in the spaces around the medallions. object type: Copper, decorated in translucent and opaque enamels, partly over foils. The Crucifixion in the centre panel with St James on the left wing and St Catherine on the right wing, enclosed in a wooden frame with folding wings title: triptych NOTES ----- type: history note value: Propert Collection (according to an early Fitzwilliam catalogue description); possibly John Lumsden Propert (1834-1902), 112 Gloucester Place, London; 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/156429 PEOPLE ------------------- Christ St James St Catherine of Alexandria SUBJECTS ------------------- prayer The Crucifixion The Crucifixion CATEGORIES ------ category: enamels category: Limoges painted enamels DATING ------ creation date: 1850 - 1900 creation date earliest: 1850 creation date latest: 1900 culture: 19th Century, second half CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 18.9 CITATIONS -------- Limoges Enamels Limoges Painted Enamels, Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Glass and Limoges Painted Enamels Gli smalti dipinti Limoges, Museo Diocesano Francesco Gonzaga --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/M_43_1904_20_280_29.jpg height: 680 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/mid_M_43_1904_20_280_29.jpg height: 447 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/M_43_1904_20_280_29.jpg height: 680 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/preview_M_43_1904_20_280_29.jpg height: 224 pixels width: 250 pixels 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