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Round Medallion Featuring Combats

1550 · Musée du Louvre, Paris

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This is an example of painted enamel grisaille in which the work on the white enamel before firing allows to render volumes. The counter-enamel is colourless glass called flux. It is probably a decorative item meant to be mounted in paneling.

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Round Medallion Featuring Combats

About the Artist

Pierre Pénicaud

1515 – 1590

French enameller. Pierre Pénicaud was the last prominent member of a French family of enamellers active in Limoges during the sixteenth century. Members of the family were noted for their work in grisaille enamel, monochromatically painted enamel work intended to look like sculpture.

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