ATTRIBUTED TO JEAN DE COURT, MASTER IC OR JEAN COURTOIS (C.1530-1584), LIMOGES, CIRCA 1580
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ID 1344830
Lot 118 | ATTRIBUTED TO JEAN DE COURT, MASTER IC OR JEAN COURTOIS (C.1530-1584), LIMOGES, CIRCA 1580
Estimate value
£ 20 000 – 30 000
The Meeting of Abraham and Melchizedek
parcel-gilt polychrome enamel on copper, inscribed '.GE.XIIII.' above the central scene, the reverse monogrammed '.I.C.' and with foliate scrolls, strapwork and grotesque masks
10 1/3 in. (26.3 cm.) diameter
Provenance
With Galerie Kugel, Paris, 2013.
Hôtel Lambert, Une Collection Princière, Volume II: Kunstkammer; Sotheby's, Paris, 12 October 2022, lot 139.
Literature
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
P. Verdier, Catalogue of the painted enamels of the Renaissance, Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, 1967, pp. 318-321, cat. 176.
S. Baratte, Les Emaux peints de Limoges, cat. Musée du Louvre, Paris, 2000, p. 360.
M. Lejeune, 'Preparatory drawings for Woodcuts by Renaissance Lyonnais artist Bernard Salomon', Master Drawings, 2014, vol. 52, no. 2, pp. 147-180.
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