Flaps of a triptych in polychrome painted... - Lot 44 - Pierre Bergé & Associés

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Flaps of a triptych in polychrome painted... - Lot 44 - Pierre Bergé & Associés
Flaps of a triptych in polychrome painted enamel with remains of gold highlights representing Saint Barbara and Saint John the Baptist, bluish lumpy counter-enamel. Left pane: under an arch with flowered pinnacle and hooked ramps, the saint places her left hand on the tower and holds the palm of martyrdom with the other; right pane: Saint John the Baptist under the same architectural arch, one knee on the ground, holds a book against him and points with his right index finger; almost faded inscription naming him in gothic letters sancti ioha batiste, on a phylactery surrounding his head, another inscription that has become unreadable. Limoges, attributed to the Master of the Triptych of Orleans, circa 1480-1490 Height: 24.2 cm - Width: 10.3 cm (slight alterations to the blue enamel, tiny lack of a corner of the plate of Saint Barbara) Provenance: former private collection in Yvelines in the 1950s. This is a recognition of the singular manner of one of the first enamelling painters of Limoges, who is chronologically placed just after the Pseudo-Monvaerni. His pseudonym, Master of the Orléans Triptych, given by the former curator of the Louvre, Marquet de Vasselot, refers to a work in the Musée des Beaux-arts in Orléans (inv. A 6947, fig.a). His style is characterised by the use of Gothic architectural elements, by a range of colours in which brown, blue and violet predominate, by the use of very fine brushwork in the drawing of facial features and, often, by the presence of inscriptions on phylacteries. These two plates are by the same hand as those in the Wallace Collection depicting saintly figures (inv. C571 and C572, figs. b and c). The comparison of the saint Barbe with the saint Catherine of the London museum is particularly convincing. Book consulted: J.J. Marquet de Vasselot, Les Emaux limousins de la fin du XVe siècle et de la première partie du XVIe, Paris, 1921, p 80-94.
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