A SET OF TWELVE ENAMEL MEDALLIONS OF ROMAN EMPERORS

LIMOGES, 16TH CENTURY

细节

A SET OF TWELVE ENAMEL MEDALLIONS OF ROMAN EMPERORS
LIMOGES, 16TH CENTURY
Each in a gilt-wood frame; each inscribed with the Latin name of the sitter and numbered 1 to 12.
Some losses and repairs to enamel.
2.3/8 in. (6 cm.) high (12)

来源

Baron de Béthune, Brussels

展览

Brussels, Exposition rétrospective d'art industriel, 1888

拍品专文

The complete series of emperors en grisaille appears to be unique. The Anton Ulrich-Museum, Braunschweig, has five similar medallions en grisaille, which came from the collection of J.B. Tavernier (d. 1786). The sequence of numbers does not follow strictly the chronological order of the Emperors' reigns: the use of Arabic, rather than Roman numerals is however characteristic of Limoges in the 16th Century. Philippe Verdier, who wrote the catalogue of Enamels in the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, believes them to date from around 1535.