Coupe with Cover

Workshop of Jean Court dit Vigier (French, active ca. 1541 - 1627)

Dateca. 1550

MediumEnamel and gilding on copper

DimensionsOverall: 12 × 7 5/8 inches (30.48 × 19.37 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust

Object number32-21 A,B

On View

On view

Gallery Location

Collections

Architecture, Design and Decorative Arts

Terms

DescriptionScenes from creation of Adam and Eve. With leather case, globe on top.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Ausstellung von Kunstwerken des Mittelalters und der Renaissance aus Berliner Privatbesitz, Kunstgeschichtlichen Gesellschaft, May, 20 - July 3, 1898, no. 3.

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

Georg Reichenheim (1842-1903), Berlin, by 1903;

By decent to his wife, Margarete Oppenheim-Reichenheim (1857-1935), Berlin, 1903;

Stephan von Auspitz (1869-1945), Vienna, by 1925-1932;

Purchased from von Auspitz by Bachstitz Gallery,The Hague, Netherlands and New York, stock no. V/407, 1931-1932 [1];

Purchased from Bachstitz Gallery, through HaroldWoodbury Parsons, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1932.

NOTES:

[1] Record of object in Metropolitan Museum of Art Archives, New York, Bachstitz Gallery Records, box 19, folder 7, copy in NAMA curatorial file.

Published References

Ausstellung von Kunstwerken des Mittelalters und der Renaissance aus berliner Privatbesitz, veranstaltet von der kunstgeschichtlichen Gesellschaft vom 20. Mai bis 3. Juli 1898, exh. cat. (Berlin, Kunstgeschichtlichen Gesellschaft, 1899), XLV (repro.).

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