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Oval Dish: Apollo and the Muses; Fame

 (French, act. 1602–1603)
Datelate 16th century
MediumPainted enamel on copper, partly gilded
Dimensions21 7/16 × 16 × 2 in. (54.5 × 40.6 × 5.1 cm)
Credit LineHenry Clay Frick Bequest
Accession number1916.4.29
Commentary

Little is known about Martial Reymond, who signed this large dish. Son of Jean Reymond, he followed his father’s style and technique in creating a decorative piece characteristic of the second half of the sixteenth century. Particularly representative of this artistic period is the com­bination of a mythological scene—here, Apollo surrounded by muses playing music—with fanciful figures and fantastic animals, known as grotesques. This exemplifies the arts that flourished at the court of Francis I at Fontainebleau under the influence of Italian artists brought to France in the 1530s and 1540s and which had a significant impact on Limoges enamelers of the next generation.

Source: Vignon, Charlotte. The Frick Collection Decorative Arts Handbook. New York: The Frick Collection/Scala, 2015.

Collection History

J. Pierpont Morgan, London and New York. Duveen. Frick, 1916.

Source: Enamels, Rugs and Silver in The Frick Collection. Volume VIII. New York: The Frick Collection, 1977.

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