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Attributed to Pierre Reymond, enameler

March Calendar Plate, ca. 1560

Now On View

Description

Maker

  • After Etienne Delaune, 1518-1583, French, engraver (inciser)
  • Attributed to Pierre Reymond, ca. 1513-after 1584, French, enameler

Title

March Calendar Plate

Year

ca. 1560

Medium

Enamel with gilding on copper

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • copper,
  • gilding,
  • gilded,
  • enamel

Dimensions

Diameter: 18.4 cm (7 1/4 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Strapwork: "Martius" (latin for March)

Place

France; Limoges

Type

  • Metalwork

Credit

Gift of Franklin Robinson in honor of the Fine Arts Committee and the Museum Staff

Object Number

1989.085

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Exhibition History

Exhibition History

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Based on a French engraving, this calendar plate depicts workers pruning grapevines. The figures are surrounded by classical ornament in grisaille (white on black) enamel and accented with peach skin tones and gilding. Inscribed Martius (Latin for March), the plate features stylized ram’s horns—the zodiac sign for Aries—at the top of the rim.

Secular calendar plates illustrating the labors of each month were made beginning in the 1540s by artists in Limoges, France, the leading center for enamelware. Production of painted enamels began there in the late 1400s with polychrome religious devotional plaques, then expanded throughout the 1500s to include grisaille tablewares for domestic use and decoration.

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