IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 156439 accession number: M.49E-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 pink, and red, on a black ground, and gilded. Clear, uneven counter-enamel with several blobs on the right side. Job sits on ashes, menaced from behind by Satan, and admonished by his wife who stands in front of him on the right. Job faces to his left with his head turned to his right, He is bearded, and naked apart from a white cloth over his knees. His body is covered with red boils.. Satan holds a blazing red switch, and behind him is a furnace spouting flames. Job’s wife wears sixteenth-century costume and has her back to the vewer. God appears in a semi-circle of clouds in the top right corner. Gold lines run round the edges of the garments. Running across the bottom of the plaque is a white panel inscribed in black with gold over it, ‘ET NOVS INDVIS POINT/EN TENTATION’ (And lead us not into temptation) followed by two curved gold lines. A gold line runs round the edge of scene and the inscription. The reverse is inscribed in black with the number ‘VII’. 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: Copper enamelled en grisaille with pink and red, and gilded. Job admonished by his wife and tempted by Satan with the inscription ‘ET NOVS INDVIS POINT/EN TENTATION’ (And lead us not into temptation). One of a set of plaques with M.49A-D & 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/156439 PEOPLE ------------------- Satan Job Job's wife SUBJECTS ------------------- prayer Temptation of Job Temptation of Job 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 Holbein’s Thatigkeit für Baseler Verleger Oberrheinische buchillustration 2. Basler Buchillustration 1500 bis 1545 Les émaux peints de Limoges. 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