Oval Dish: Apollo and the Muses; Fame
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.
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.
