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The Crucified Christ with the Virgin and St John
Maker: Reymond, Pierre (Workshop of)
Copper, enamelled and gilt.
Rectangular slightly convex copper plaque with arched top, enamelled in pale greyish-blue, pale bluish-green, pale mulberry, flesh pink, pale straw-yellow, red, black, and white enamels, and gilded. The outlines are in black. The reverse has clear counter-enamel.
Christ hangs on a gold Cross with ‘INRI’ written in gold on a white panel over it. He wears a green crown of thorns and a white drape which is being blown out on either side by the wind. Blood pours from the wounds in his head, hands, feet, and side. At the base of the cross there is a white skull with black eye sockets. On the left the Virgin stands with her hands together in prayer, looking away from the Cross. She wears a white wimple, and a pale blue mantle over a mulberry dress. St John stands on the right holding a bluish-green book with both hands, and looking towards the Virgin. He has pale straw-coloured hair, and wears a white mantle over a mulberry gown. The ground is bluish-green. The black background has a gold sun on the left of the Cross and a moon on the right, and below its arms is semé with shooting stars (tadpole-like shapes). A narrow gold band runs round the curved edge, and within it is a line broken at intervals by four oblique strokes.
History note: Uncertain before testator
C.B. Marlay Bequest
Height: 7.8 cm
Width: 6.1 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1912) by Marlay, Charles Brinsley
Mid 16th century
Production date:
circa
AD 1540
The figures were probably derived from a print by Martin Schongauer, (Bartsch, VI (Part 1), p. 129, no. 23; Illustrated Bartsch 8, formerly volume 6 (Part 1), Early German Artists, ed. Jane C. Hutchison, New York, 1980, p. 237, no. 23.)
The iconography, apart from the skull, is close to a plaque attributed tentatively to Pierre Reymond, situated above a set of Lord’s Prayer plaques mounted as a triptych which was lincluded in the Special Loan Exhibition of Enamels on Metal held in the South Kensington Museum in 1834, and is now in the Musée municipal de l’Evêché, Limoges The Lord’s Prayer plaques are attributed to Couly Nouailher, (Inv. 2000.10.1) see Notin, 2000, pp. 295-9, illustrated.
Back Of Plaque
composed of
enamel
( clear counter-enamel)
Decoration
composed of
enamel
( pale greyish-blue, pale bluish-green, pale mulberry, flesh pink, pale straw-yellow, red, black, and white)
gold
Plaque
composed of
copper
Accession number: MAR.M.252-1912
Primary reference Number: 156447
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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Accession Number: 122
Accession Number: MAR.M.266-1912
Accession Number: M.16-1904
Accession Number: MS 22
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