IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 156433 accession number: M.47-1904 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 10 November 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Rectangular copper plaque with slightly waisted sides and a hole at top centre and at bottom centre, enamelled in blue, green, yellow, pink, flesh- pink, orange-red, stone, brown, black, and white, and gilded. The counter-enamel is cloudy dark brownish-black. An oval medallion with a white border encloses a full-length seated figure of St Eleonor holding a green palm in her left hand, and resting her right hand on her breast. She has black and red jewels in her hair, and wears a red long-sleeved dress highlighted in pink, a white collar with red stripes, and a brooch at centre front, and a blue ermine-lined cloak sem\'e9 with gold fleurs-de-lys. To her left there is a chest covered by a white cloth decorated with fleur-de-lys, on which rests a crown and sceptre. Behind her is a stone-coloured wall and a black background. The black spandrels outside the frame are decorated in raised white with stylized foliage. Two narrow white panels at the bottom of the plaque are inscribed in black,'SAINTE ELEONOR'. Signed on the reverse in gold: 'B.TE. OVAILHER./ EMAILIEVR/A. LIMOGES' followed by a flourish. object type: rectangular copper plaque painted in enamels and gilded. St Eleonor holding a palm, in an oval medallion titled below in two panels 'SAINTE' 'ELEONOR'; raised white foliage reserved in a black ground in the spandrels title: plaque NOTES ----- type: history note value: Edwin H. Lawrence, FSA (1819-91); sold Christie’s, 4-6 May 1892, second day, first part of lot 168; Frank McClean, MA, FRS (1837–1904); bequeathed by him. 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/156433 PEOPLE ------------------- Saint Eleonor SUBJECTS ------------------- palm palm CATEGORIES ------ category: enamels DATING ------ creation date: 1730 - 1760 creation date earliest: 1730 creation date latest: 1760 culture: 18th Century, Mid culture: Louis XV CREATORS -------- maker: Nouailher, Jean-Baptiste I EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: 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. 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. Eleanor of Provence: queenship in thirteenth century England Les émaux peints a l’Éxposition Rétrospective de Limoges en 1886 Le métier d’émailleur à Limoges, XVIe-XVIIe siècle Émaux peints de Limoges XVe-XVIIIe siècles, la collection du Musée des Arts Décoratifs --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/M_47_1904_20_281_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 625 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/mid_M_47_1904_20_281_29.jpg height: 608 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/M_47_1904_20_281_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 625 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/preview_M_47_1904_20_281_29.jpg height: 304 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/M_47_1904_20_282_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 643 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/mid_M_47_1904_20_282_29.jpg height: 591 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/M_47_1904_20_282_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 643 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/preview_M_47_1904_20_282_29.jpg height: 295 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/505/223/large_M_47_1904_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/505/223/mid_M_47_1904_1_200801_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 750 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/M.47-1904_1_200801_mfj22_mas.tif surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/505/223/preview_M_47_1904_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/505/223/M_47_1904_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/505/228/large_M_47_1904_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/505/228/mid_M_47_1904_2_200801_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 750 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/M.47-1904_2_200801_mfj22_mas.tif surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/505/228/preview_M_47_1904_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/505/228/M_47_1904_2_200801_mfj22_mas.ptif height: 4992 pixels width: 3328 pixels