Tazza
Attributed to
Workshop of Pierre Reymond
(French, 1513 - 1584?)
Dateca. 1560
MediumEnamel and gilding on copper
DimensionsOverall: 3 1/4 × 7 1/2 inches (8.26 × 19.05 cm)
Credit LineGift of Robert Lehman
Object number45-56
On View
On viewGallery Location
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Collections
DescriptionShallow pedestal cup of black and polychrome enamel. Knight on white horse with lion shield; three other men standing at side. Castle in background. Heads and half-length figures on under side and pedestal.Gallery LabelLimoges, France was an important, 16th-century center for enamel production. Some enamellers employed grisaille or monochromatic painting to imitate the three-dimensionality and tonality of stone sculpture, as seen in Pierre Reymond's Calendar Plate. Mannerist prints served as design sources for enamellers; the Creation scene on the coupe's cover follows the work of Bernard Salomon, a 16th-century artist. Grotesque masks and fantastic creatures, also characteristic of the Mannerist style, were incorporated into enamel designs, as well as contemporary northern Italian armor.
Baron
Frédéric Spitzer (1815-1890), Paris, by 1890;
By descent to his daughters, Madame La Baronne Coche de la Ferté (née Catherine Spitzer, 1872-1954) and Madame Augustin Rey de Villette (née Marguerite Spitzer), Paris, 1890-1929;
Purchased at their sale, Medieval and Renaissance Art…from the Frederic Spitzer Collection, The Anderson Galleries, New York, January 9-12, 1929, lot 234, by Robert Lehman (1891-1969), New York, no. E2, 1929-1945 [1];
His gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1945.
NOTES:
[1] Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Robert Lehman Papers, box 82, folder 13.
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