plate
- Museum number
- 1913,1220.64
- Description
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Plate, circular; painted Limoges enamel on copper: Obverse: Part of a calendar set illustrating the Labours of the Months, painted in grisaille with fleshtones on a dark ground; details in gilt. August. Four male peasants harvesting wheat; two scything, one with sheaves, one threshing; the cavetto with a sloping 'S' motif; the rim with farming motifs and on either side a trophy of schythes and wheat; the top with strapwork label inscribed 'P.C.'; the bottom with a strapwork label inscribed 'AUGUSTUS'; Reverse: central strapwork motif surrounding central zodiac sign of a seated, winged lady for Virgo, also with astrological symbol set within a reserve between gilt dots; the rim with scrolling foliage alternating with four oval reserves with alternating standing and recumbent figures, now effaced. Copper base showing through in patches. Considerable damage and cold repairs to bottom centre, cold repairs around white rim now yellowing and flaking.
- Production date
- 1560 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 18.90 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Not listed in Verdier's handlist of BM enamels. Part of a set with 1913, 1220, 63. Compare a similar plate after Delaune print with the month of October which was on the art market in 2017:http://www.worksofart.be/catalogi/catalogus17.pdf
which is probably in set with this one. There is also a July plate in the Louvre.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Obverse: cold repairs; reverse: fair
- Acquisition date
- 1913
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1913,1220.64
