A LIMOGES ENAMEL PLATE

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A LIMOGES ENAMEL PLATE
FRENCH, MID-16TH CENTURY, BY JEAN DE COURT

Decorated 'en grisaille' with fleshtone highlights, and depicting the labors of the month of June, with a man and a woman shearing a ram and a ewe and a man leaning on a cane behind her, above the scene decorated with the zodiac sign of Cancer and the inscription 'IVING' painted in gold, the rim decorated with masks interspersed with scrolling strapwork and fruit, the reverse with strapwork, caryatids and signed 'I.C.', minor wear to edges
7¼in. (18.5cm.) diameter

Lot Essay

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
S. Caroselli, The Painted Enamels of Limoges, A Catalogue of the Collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 1993, pp. 158-159, cat. no. 25 (illus.)
The Taft Museum, New York, 1995, pp. 390-91

The present lot originally formed part of a series of twelve calendar plates, of which two others (February and December) are in the Taft Museum, Cincinnati.