IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 156435 accession number: M.49A-1904 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Sunday 3 March 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Rectangular copper convex plaque with a small hole in each corner, enamelled in grisaille with a little flesh pink on a black round, and gilded. Clear, unevenly applied clear counter-enamel. Christ stands on a flat rock on the right addressing his disciples who stand slightly below him in a group on the left. He is barefooted, and has a gold aureole, long hair, and a beard, and wears a long gown with a cloak over it. The first disciple on the left, probably St Peter, is old and bearded, and wears a long gown with a cloak which he holds up in his right hand and clutches to his chest with his left hand. The disciple behind him, probably St John, is younger and clean-shaven with golden hair, and wears a long gown and cloak fastened together over his chest with a brooch. The head of another disciple is shown behind him, but only the tops of the heads of the rest of the group behind them are shown. A large tree stands in the background between Christ and the disciples. Gold lines run round the edges of their clothing, and there are small gold plants on the rock and beyond the tree, which is entwined by a delicate gold vine. A white panel running across the bottom of the plaque is inscribed in black with gilding over it ‘IHESVS• DICT•A•SES•DISEIPSIES QVANT/VOVS PRIEREZ HE PARSEZ: PAS•BEAV:/COP MAIS PRIEZ AMSY (sprig) MAT V1’ (Jesus said to his disciples ‘When you pray do not speak too much but pray thus’ Matthew V1) . A gold line runs round the edge of the scene and inscription. The reverse is painted in black with the number ‘1’. The plaque is set in an ill-fitting, rectangular, gilt-metal frame with repeating formal leaf border. The plaque is held into the frame by four bent over pins attached to the cardinal points on the reverse. object type: Rectangular copper plaque enamelled en grisaille with a little flesh pink and red on a black ground, and gilded. Christ teaching the disciples how to pray, inscribed below, 'IHESVS• DICT•A•SES•DISEIPSIES QVANT/VOVS PRIEREZ HE PARSEZ: PAS•BEAV:/COP MAIS PRIEZ AMSY (sprig) MAT V'1. One of a set with M.49B-F-1904 title: plaque NOTES ----- type: history note value: Uncertain; possibly Robert Napier, West Shandon, Dunbartonshire by 1865; sold Christie’s, 5 June, 1877, part of lot 2594; sold to Stettiner (probably Henri). An unidentified French sale in which the six plaques formed lot 289. An unidentified Italian owner or dealer before or after the sale. Frank McClean MA, FRS (1837–1904), Rusthall House, near Tunbridge Wells 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/156435 PEOPLE ------------------- Christ Disciples 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: Nouailher, Colin maker: Holbein, Hans, the younger maker: Monogrammist C. V. 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. Quelques émaux de Colin Noailher et leurs modèles gravés Collected Works of Erasmus, vol. 69, Spiritualia and Pastoralia . . . . Precatio domenica . . . Holbein’s Thatigkeit für Baseler Verleger German engravings, etchings and woodcuts, ca. 1400-1700 Le Premier recueil des oeuvres de la muse cosmopolitique, laquelle par ses artz gentilz guerit toute ladrerye Oberrheinische Buchillustration 2, Basler Buchillustration 1500-1545 Les acquisitions du Musée municipal de l’Evêché - musée de l’Email de Limoges Catalogue of the Works of Art forming the Collection of Robert Napier of West Shandon, Dumbartonshire Catalogue of the very choice and important collection of objects of art and vertu, formed during a long series of years by that well-inown connoisseur, G.H. Morland, Esq. Comprising fine Limoges Enamels . . . . and Pictures by Ancient and Modern Artists Piety and the People : Religious Printing in French 1511-1551 Theology for the Layman in the French Reformation 1520-1550 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/M_49_1904_201_20_281_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 628 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/mid_M_49_1904_201_20_281_29.jpg height: 605 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/M_49_1904_201_20_281_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 628 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/preview_M_49_1904_201_20_281_29.jpg height: 303 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/M_49_1904_201_20_282_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 641 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/mid_M_49_1904_201_20_282_29.jpg height: 593 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/M_49_1904_201_20_282_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 641 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/preview_M_49_1904_201_20_282_29.jpg height: 296 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/505/234/large_M_49A_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/505/234/mid_M_49A_1904_1_200801_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 750 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/M.49A-1904_1_200801_mfj22_mas.tif surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/505/234/preview_M_49A_1904_1_200801_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 375 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/505/235/large_M_49A_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/505/235/mid_M_49A_1904_2_200801_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 750 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/M.49A-1904_2_200801_mfj22_mas.tif surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/505/235/preview_M_49A_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/505/235/M_49A_1904_2_200801_mfj22_mas.ptif height: 4992 pixels width: 3328 pixels