IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 156438 accession number: M.49D-1904 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Sunday 3 March 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Rectangular convex copper plaque with a hole in each corner, enamelled en grisaille with a little flesh pink on a black ground, and gilded. Clear counter-enamel unevenly applied with blobs in the top right quarter, and on the lower edge. A large red area of copper in that quarter. Two prisoners are seated side by side in front of a wall in which there is a barred arched window. Thier legs and arms are in stocks Christ enters from a doorway on the right. He has a gold aurole, and is bearded, long-haired, and bare-footed. He wears a long gown with a cloak over it. His arms are held out towards the prisoners. A gaoler with his back to the viewer, is unlocking the prisoner on the left. The gaoler wears a cap with a feather in it, a tunic, trunk hose and shoes. The edges of Christ’s robes and the gaoler’s clothes are outlined in gold. A white panel running across the bottom of the panel, is inscribed in black with gold over it, T•NO9•PAIDONE•.NOZ• FFESES• AINSY/ E• NOVS• PARDONOS•A. CEVLX• Q/NOVS•ONT•OFFENSE’ (And pardon our offences as we pardon them that offend us). A gold line runs round the scene and the inscription. The reverse is inscribed in black with the number ‘VI’. ADD line over Q and N and O in PARDONOS 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 grisailled with a little pink on a black ground, and gilded. Christ visiting the prisoners. Inscribed below T•NO9•PAIDONE•.NOZ• FFESES• AINSY/ E• NOVS• PARDONOS•A. CEVLX•/Q/ NOVS• ONT• OFFENSE’ (And pardon our offences as we pardon them that offend us). One of a set wth M.49A-C, E & F-1904 title: plaque NOTES ----- type: history note value: Uncertain; possibly Robert Napier, West Shandon, Dunbartonshire by 1865; sold Christie’s, 5 June, 1877, one of six plaques in lot 2594; sold to Stettiner. Or, although smaller, G.H. Morland; sold Christie's, 10 May 1866, one of six plaques in gilt-metal frames in lot 437. 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/156438 PEOPLE ------------------- Christ gaoller prisoner SUBJECTS ------------------- prayer prison Christ freeing the prisoners prison Christ freeing the prisoners CATEGORIES ------ category: enamels category: Limoges painted enamels DATING ------ creation date: 1530 - 1560 creation date earliest: 1530 creation date latest: 1560 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 Holbein’s Thatigkeit für Baseler Verleger Oberrheinische buchillustration 2. Basler Buchillustration 1500 bis 1545 Hollstein’s German Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts 1400-1700, vol. XLIX Les émaux peints de Limoges. 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