Polychrome enamel plaque with gold highlights depicting - Lot 100

Polychrome enamel plaque with gold highlights depicting the Crucifixion Entourage of Jean Reymond, Limoges, circa 1580 - 1600 Christ on the Cross surrounded by a violet cloud, in front of a landscape with the city of Jerusalem, Saint John, the Virgin Mary, Mary Magdalene and a donor in front of a prie-Dieu decorated with the coat of arms of France, the counter-enamel is cast with paper labels with the numbers 149 / 74/ 23400 and another with 22. "?/" BUREA" ?/"BLAY ; set in a gilded brass and wood frame covered with red velvet; some missing parts and old restorations H. 18 x W. 14 cm; with frame: 24 x 20 cm Provenance: Former Henri Blay collection (1861-1920). A plate similar to ours, attributed to Jean Reymond and depicting the Crucifixion, showing a donor couple with two kneeling little girls, is in the Musée du Louvre (OA 6200). The central plaque of Catherine de Médicis' mourning triptych preserved at the Musée National de la Renaissance in Ecouen certainly inspired the enameller for our plaque (E.Cl.1566). Comparative bibliography : S. Baratte, Les émaux peints de Limoges, Paris, R.M.N., 2000, p. 369. Marquet de Vasselot, Jean-Joseph, Musée du Louvre, Catalogue sommaire de l'orfèvrerie, de l'émaillerie et des gemmes du Moyen Age au XVIIème siècle, Paris, Gaston Braun éditeur, 1914, MV 729.