Calendar Plate for August

Artist Workshop of Pierre Reymond (French, 1513 - 1584?)

Dateca. 1560

MediumEnamel on copper

DimensionsOverall: 5/8 × 7 3/4 inches (1.59 × 19.69 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust

Object number45-32/3

On View

On view

Gallery Location

Collections

Architecture, Design and Decorative Arts

Terms

DescriptionPlate recto depicts a harvest scene with four male figures in the foreground and a cart, house, and cloud filled sky with angel in the background. Medallion enameled verso with four angels and a male head in center. The color motif is grey, black and gold.Gallery Label

Gallery Label

Limoges, 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.

Provenance

Edward J. Berwind (1848-1936), New York and The Elms, Newport, RI, by 1936;

By inheritance to his sister, Julia A. Berwind (1864-1961), New York and The Elms, Newport, RI, his nephew, Charles E. Dunlap (ca. 1889-1966) and his niece, Margaret (née Dunlap, 1891-1977) Behn, 1936-November 11, 1939;

Purchased at their sale, Valuable Objects of Art…from the Collection Formed by the Late Edward J. Berwind, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, November 11, 1939, lot 333, by Brummer Gallery, New York, stock no. N4478, 1939-October 8, 1945 [1];

Purchased from Brummer Gallery, through Harold Woodbury Parsons, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1945.

NOTES:

[1] The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Cloisters Library and Archives, Brummer Gallery Records, Gothic and Renaissance bronzes, dinanderie, iron, ivory, and silver, Object inventory card number N4478.

Published References

Valuable Objects of Art…from the Collection Formed by the Late Edward J. Berwind (New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1939).

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