A Limoges enamel calendar plate for the month of March

A Limoges enamel calendar plate for the month of March Copper plate with monochrome enamel “en grisaille” picked out in gilt. Of shallow form with no basal ring and a narrow border. Decorated on both sides. To the front a depiction of two elegantly dressed hunters in a forest landscape, one with a bow taking aim at a stag fleeing through an archway. The well surrounded by a band of foliate tendrils, the border with grotesque chimaeras supporting scrollwork cartouche motifs, above a depiction of the zodiac sign Taurus (sic!) and below the inscription “MARS”. The underside with full counter enamel depicting a portrait of a monk in profile in a scrollwork surround bordered by chimaeras in four oval cartouches, dated 1560 and monogrammed “P.R.” A minor rim chip at nine o'clock, minor losses to the enamel and cracks around the rim. D 17.5 cm. Limoges, studio of Pierre Reymond, 1560.

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Ø 17,5 cm