Description
Upper part of an ogival-shaped champlevé copper plate, enameled light blue, dark blue and red, engraved and gilded with quatrefoils and lion and fleuron motifs. Paris ? late 13th century Height: 11.5 cm - Width: 6.4 cm (missing) Bibliography - R. de Rochebrune, Collection du Comte Raoul de Rochebrune, Château de la Cour d'Aron Saint-Cyr-en-Talmondais (Vendée), 1917, n°23, p.185. - A. Brunet, "Notes sur quelques émaux limousins des anciennes collections des comtes de Rochebrune", Bull.de la Soc. archéol. et hist. du Limousin, t. CXXVIII, 2000, n°16, p.13-14 and p.15 ill. Marie-Madeleine Gautier, a leading specialist in champlevé enamels, links this beautiful fragment with a plate of the same shape and decoration, which serves as the background for a gilded copper applique figure in the Wallace Collection, London (inv. W11), while other such plates are said to be in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. They are thought to come from a tomb decoration. Book consulted : M.M. Gauthier, Emaux du moyen âge occidental, Fribourg, 1972, p 192-195, fig. 142. A pair of champlevé, blue-enameled and engraved copper quadrilobes with fleur-de-lys decoration. Heights: 2.5 and 2.5 cm - Width: 2.4 and 2.5 cm Paris ? late 13th century (one cut out, the other pierced)
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Upper part of an ogival-shaped champlevé copper plate, enameled light blue, dark blue and red, engraved and gilded with quatrefoils and lion and fleuron motifs. Paris ? late 13th century Height: 11.5 cm - Width: 6.4 cm (missing) Bibliography - R. de Rochebrune, Collection du Comte Raoul de Rochebrune, Château de la Cour d'Aron Saint-Cyr-en-Talmondais (Vendée), 1917, n°23, p.185. - A. Brunet, "Notes sur quelques émaux limousins des anciennes collections des comtes de Rochebrune", Bull.de la Soc. archéol. et hist. du Limousin, t. CXXVIII, 2000, n°16, p.13-14 and p.15 ill. Marie-Madeleine Gautier, a leading specialist in champlevé enamels, links this beautiful fragment with a plate of the same shape and decoration, which serves as the background for a gilded copper applique figure in the Wallace Collection, London (inv. W11), while other such plates are said to be in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. They are thought to come from a tomb decoration. Book consulted : M.M. Gauthier, Emaux du moyen âge occidental, Fribourg, 1972, p 192-195, fig. 142. A pair of champlevé, blue-enameled and engraved copper quadrilobes with fleur-de-lys decoration. Heights: 2.5 and 2.5 cm - Width: 2.4 and 2.5 cm Paris ? late 13th century (one cut out, the other pierced)
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