A NIELLO, SILVER-GILT AND ENAMEL PAX DEPICTING THE ANNUNCIATION

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A NIELLO, SILVER-GILT AND ENAMEL PAX DEPICTING THE ANNUNCIATION
THE ENAMEL FROM THE WORKSHOP OF THE MASTER OF THE LARGE FOREHEADS, EARLY 16TH CENTURY

The tympanum with a scene of God the Father and seraphim, the frame inscribed in two bands above and below the enamel plaque 'PAX VOBIS AVE MARIA GRATIA PLENA'.
Minor losses to edges of the enamel; the frame formerly with a support to the reverse.
7 1/8in. (18.1cm.) high

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COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
P. Verdier, The Walters Art Gallery, Catalogue of the Painted Enamels of the Renaissance, Baltimore, 1967, pp. 42-43, no. 24

拍品專文

The facial types of the figures in the present enamel are consistent with an attribution to the workshop of the so-called Master of the Large Foreheads, an artist who appears to have been a disciple of the equally anonymous Master of the Orléans Triptych. It is especially close in style and indeed in its framing elements to another pax from the same workshop in the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore (Verdier, loc. cit.). Like it, it would appear to have been exported to Northern Italy.