IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 156462 accession number: M.116-1961 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 5 March 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Copper, enamelled in opaque white in grisaille technique and with pale salmon and darker salmon pink flesh tones, and a little red over a black background, with dotting, scrolls, sprays and other embellishments in gold. Oval with a narrow rim, shallow curved sides and uneven centre. The well is decorated with the Wedding Feast of Cupid and Psyche. Six gods, alternately male and female are seated behind a table, including Jupiter on the left, and in front of the table on the right, Venus and Hercules are seen from the back, with below them on a cloud, the signature 'P. COVRTEYS' inscribed in black and gold. To their left Cupid emerges from under the table, holding up the cloth and gazing at Venus. Standing on the extreme left is Ganymede pouring out water into a cistern in which a ewer is standing. Behind the table above the guests there are three winged Horae scattering flowers. On the rim there are four long-eared masks linked by strapwork. The edge is white. On the middle of the reverse, is Jupiter astride an eagle within an oval guilloche frame, surrounded by two large male masks on right and left, and two smaller female masks above and below, linked by strapwork and bunches of fruit. On the rim, there is guilloche ornament broken at the cardinal points by a strap, one dated "1560" and at intervals between them by four oval cabochon motifs. object type: Oval dish decorated in grisaille and flesh pink enamels and gilded. On the front, the Wedding of Psyche with a border of masks and strapwork on the rim. On the back, Jupiter astride an eagle surrounded by male and female masks, strapwork and bunches of fruit, with guilloche ornament and strapwork on the underside of the rim. Signed 'P. COVRTEYS' on the front, and dated '1560' on the back. title: dish NOTES ----- type: history note value: uncertain before October 1948 when in the collection of Louis Colville Gray Clarke, MA, D.Litt., Leckhampton, Cambridge LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: Louis C. G. Clarke creditline: Louis C.G. Clarke Bequest, 1960 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/156462 PEOPLE ------------------- Cupid Jupiter Ganymede Venus Hercules Psyche SUBJECTS ------------------- table cistern two-handled cup flask cloud Wedding of Psyche Feast of the Gods table cistern two-handled cup flask cloud Wedding of Psyche Feast of the Gods TECHNIQUES ---------- copper, enamelled in grisaille technique in opaque white with pale salmon and darker salmon pink flesh tones, and a little red over a manganese-black ground with dotting, scrolls, sprays and other embellishments in gold raising (metal forming process) CATEGORIES ------ category: enamels category: Limoges painted enamels DATING ------ creation date: 1560 - 1560 creation date earliest: 1560 creation date latest: 1560 culture: 16th Century, Mid culture: François II culture: Charles IX CREATORS -------- maker: Courteys, Pierre I DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 5 dimension: Length units: cm value: 54.9 dimension: Width units: cm value: 41.8 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Feast and Fast: The Art of Food in Europe (1500-1800) title: The Tale of Cupid and Psyche, Myth in Art from Antiquity to Canova CITATIONS -------- The Tale of Cupid and Psyche, Myth in Art from Antiquity to Canova Feast & Fast. The Art of Food in Europe 1500-1800 The Golden Ass or Metamorphoses The Painted Enamels of Limoges. A Catalogue of the Collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art The Illustrated Bartsch 29 Formerly Volume 15 (Part 2), Italian Masters of the Sixteenth century The Walters Art Gallery, Catalogue of the Painted Enamels of the Renaissance Les émaux peints de Limoges. 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