plate
- Museum number
- 1855,1201.16
- Description
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Plate, circular; painted Limoges enamel on copper: Scenes from Genesis; The Sacrifice of Isaac. Obverse: In a landscape, Isaac on the altar, Abraham stands above him with a sword, an angel holds the tip and points towards a goat; two servants wait with an ass; inscribed below the bundle of firewood 'GENESE XXII'. The cavetto with floral decoration in gilt, the rim with scrolled brackets, fruit and masks. Reverse: central strapwork motif with alternating lion and grotesque masks around a medallion inscribed 'P / CORTEYS / MAF'; the rim with foliate and grotesque decoration in gilt. Painted in grisaille with flesh tones on a dark ground; details gilt.
- Production date
- 1560 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 21.40 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Not listed in Verdier's handlist of BM enamels. For a discussion of a series of plates illustrating Scenes from Genesis, and for same rim, reverse and signature, see Caroselli, S., 1993, pp. 146-155.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Good. Damage and losses to upper and centre top gilding line around cavetto, revealing mulberry ground and copper base. Chips and cracks to white rim
- Associated events
- Associated Event: Sacrifice of Isaac
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Genesis 22
- Acquisition notes
- Bernal Sale, Christie's, London, 5 March - 30 April 1855, lot. 1483
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1855,1201.16
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: BL.1480
