IDENTIFIERS
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id:	156450
accession number:	MAR.M.255-1912

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 30 April 2024

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Rectangular, convex copper plaque with a small circular hole in each corner, decorated with translucent, blue, green, mulberry and purple enamels, and yellowish-brown, pinkish-red, grey, black and white enamels, and gilded. The outlines are executed in black, and the flesh areas are hatched and cross-hatched in grey and black, and stippled in pinkish-red. The counter-enamel is transparent.
A half-length figure of the Virgin holding the Christ Child to her breast with her right hand and helping him to feed with her left. The Virgin has a blue and purple headdress over her brownish-yellow hair, and wears a purple and mulberry gown with long blue sleeves, and a blue cloak. The Christ Child wears a white napkin. There are small gold plants on the green ground below, and the black ground above is scattered with gold stars around the large striated halo of the Virgin. At the bottom below a gold lines, is a horizontal black band inscribed 'S.MARIA’ between stylized plant sprays, and on the extreme right the initials ‘I L’ with an ill-defined fleur-de-lys or cross between them, all in gold. A narrow gold line runs round the outer edge of the plaque.
object type: Copper, polychrome enamels and gold. A a half-length figure of the Virgin holding the Christ Child to her breast, against a black ground strewn with gold stars, titled 'S.MARIA', and initialled 'I L' with an ill-defined fleur-de-lys or cross between the letters
title:	plaque

NOTES
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type: history note
value: uncertain before Charles Brinsley Marlay (1831-1912), St. Katherine's Lodge, Regent's Park, London


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	C. B. Marlay
creditline: C.B. Marlay Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/156450

PEOPLE
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Virgin Mary
Christ Child

SUBJECTS
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prayer
breast feeding
breast feeding



CATEGORIES
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category: enamels
category: Limoges painted enamels

DATING
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creation date:	1605 - 1635
creation date earliest:	1605
creation date latest:	1635
culture:	17th Century, first half

CREATORS
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maker: Limosin, Jean

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 9.9

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 7.1



CITATIONS
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The Walters Art Gallery, Catalogue of the Painted Enamels of the Renaissance
Le métier d’émailleur à Limoges, XVIe-XVIIe siècle
Émaux peints de Limoges XVe-XVIIIe siècles, la collection du Musée des Arts Décoratifs
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