An enamelled plaque with the Virgin and Child - image-1

Lot 919 Dα

An enamelled plaque with the Virgin and Child

Auction 1152 - overview Cologne
29.05.2020, 14:00 - Decorative Arts
Estimate: 6.000 € - 8.000 €

An enamelled plaque with the Virgin and Child

Copper panel with polychrome enamel and remains of gilding, ochre coloured counter enamel. Showing the Virgin and Child in an interior with Saint Anne, Saint Elisabeth, and the young John the Baptist carrying a jug. H 12.3, W 10.6 cm, H with frame 22.7, W 20.4 cm.
Limoges, mid-16th C.

Provenance

Private collection, Copenhagen.

Literature

For similar enamels with stylised landscape backgrounds cf.: Müsch et alii, Maleremails aus dem 16. und 17. Jahrhundert, Braunschweig 2002, no. 16 ff.