Painted enamels

CASKET: SCENES OF PUTTI AND EPISODES FROM THE LIFE OF HERCULES

circle of Colin II Nouailher Limoges c.1540-1550 painted polychrome enamel, on copper gilt in its original wooden and leather-bound carcase 12,6 X 17,5 X 11,5 cm Provenance gallery Joan Dirven sr., Eindhoven or gallery Jaap Wiegersma, Utrecht, c.1955-before 1965. Lodewijk B. de Hoop-coll., Wassenaar (The Netherlands)-'s-Gravenwezel (Belgium), before 1965-2002. by descent to: priv. coll., The Netherlands, 2002-2024. Literature B. Descheemaeker, The Painted Limoges Enamels and the Seven Parisian Ivory Roundels from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection. Catalogue 14, Antwerp, 2015, p.94, note 3.