IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 156445 accession number: MAR.M.250-1912 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Thick, narrow rectangular copper plaque, enamelled in dark blue, turquoise, green, yellow, flesh pink, red, mulberry, pale brown, black, grey, and white, and gilded.A very thin wash of red produces flesh pink.The jewels and flower centres are foiled in silver (?).The reverse has dark brown counter- enamel. Joseph of Aramathea stands on a ladder with his right arm over the tau Cross and round the body of Christ which he lowers into the arms of Nicodemus who stands on the right. On the left of the Cross, the Virgin Mary has sunk to her knees, and holds her hands together in prayer. Mary Magdalene (?) kneels beside her with her right arm around her shoulders. A skull and a bone lie at the foot of the Cross. The foreground on each side is scattered with jewelled flowers, and the sky is scattered with stars. Joseph of Aramathea is balding and bearded. He wears a short mulberry gown over a garment with long yellow sleeves, and blue boots. Christ wears a crown of thorns and a white loin cloth. His white body is tinged with pink and blood trickles from his brow, hands, side, and feet. Nicodemus has a short beard, and a yellow hat with a jewel on its upturned brim. He wears a dark blue and mulberry tunic with jewelling round the neckline, green tights and brown boots with jewelled tops. The Virgin wears a dark blue mantle over a white wimple and mulberry dress. Mary Magdalene has a turquoise jewelled cap over her pale brown hair. She wears a dark blue cloak over a mulberry dress. The skull and bone are white and grey, and the flowers have white dotted petals around yellow and blue foiled centres. The rectangular gilt-metal frame, has two applied twisted stems with leaf terminals at the top and bottom and five on each the side. object type: Copper decorated with polychrome enamels and jewelling over silver (?) foil, and gilded. Gilt-metal frame title: plaque NOTES ----- type: history note value: uncertain before Charles Brinsley Marley (1831-1912) by whom bequeathed LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: C. B. Marlay creditline: C.B. Marlay Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/156445 PEOPLE ------------------- Christ Joseph of Arimathea Nicodemus Virgin Mary Mary Magdalene SUBJECTS ------------------- prayer cross skull bone flower deposition cross skull bone flower deposition CATEGORIES ------ category: enamels DATING ------ creation date: 1520 - 1525 creation date earliest: 1520 creation date latest: 1525 culture: 16th Century, Early CREATORS -------- maker: Penicaud, Nardon CITATIONS -------- Les émaux limousins de la fin du XVe siècle et de la première partie du XVIe; étude sur Nardon Penicaud et ses contemporains The Walters Art Gallery, Catalogue of the Painted Enamels of the Renaissance Limoges Painted Enamels, Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries Les émaux peints de Limoges. 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