plaque
- Museum number
- 1913,1220.61
- Description
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Painted Limoges enamel plaque; copper, rectangular; set in a modern gilt wood frame set with four plaques of trapezoid shaped enamel decorated with scrolls in gilding on a blue ground; the Annunciation; four donor figures, in mid-sixteenth century costume, kneeling at a prie dieu; shields of arms; at sides, mountain landscape and seascape; signed; painted in grisaille and semi-opaque enamels on a white preparation flesh tones are stippled; details in gilding; counter enamel transparent.
- Production date
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1550 (circa)
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19thC (?)
- Dimensions
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Length: 18 centimetres
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Width: 24.50 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Fairly good
- Acquisition date
- 1913
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1913,1220.61
