Enamel plate painted polychrome with gold highlights representing the Ascension of Christ. Counter-enamel in salmon-colored fondant. The Apostles and the Virgin form a circle around the rock and watch Christ rise to heaven in the clouds, revealing only the bottom of his tunic and his feet, his footprints left on the earth.
Limoges, around 1540
Height: 16,1 cm - Width: 12,8 cm
Total height: 19,4 cm - Total width: 15,9 cm
Old label on the reverse Limoges Enamel of the 16 Centy / purchased in Rome Sep 2. 1869 from / Caesar Baldesaro by
A.H. Denay Esq/purchased June 1882 by W.H. WAYNE / ltd W. Chaffers T.S.A. Date 1542.
In a blackened wood frame.
(small accidents)
Provenance:
Sotheby's London sale, July 4, 1992, lot 352.
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