Polychrome painted enamel plaque with gold highlights... Lot 113

Polychrome painted enamel plaque with gold highlights depicting St. Veronica under a canopy, presenting the Holy Face between St. Peter and St. Paul, after Albrecht Dürer's Little Passion on wood (fig.). Invisible counter-glaze. Limoges, mid-16th century Height: 13 cm - Width: 10.5 cm In a carved and gilded wood frame decorated with acanthus leaves, on a red velvet background. Total height: 30.5 cm - Total width: 26 cm (accidents and missing parts, mainly on the lower right corner) Bibliography : A. Brunet, ″Émaux de Limoges dans une collection angevine″ in Bull. de la Soc. Archéol. et hist. du Limousin, t. CXXI, 1993, n°22, p. 170, fig. 24 p.171.