LIMOGES Plate Plaque COPPER ENAMEL Basilica San Martino Tours France early 20th

Including board on the back. High: 7,28 inch; Large: 5,2 inch ; Deep: 0,98 inch. Copper plaque decorated with Limges enamels, fired at very high temperatures, depicting San Martino on horseback and a beggar. On the back plate with writing in French. Datable to the first half of the 20th century, 1900 - 1930.

Limoges enamel is an enamel working technique, called enamel champlevé, which appeared in Limoges in the 12th century and was very successful in Europe, disappeared in the 14th century but, at the end of the 15th century, a new painted enamel working technique appeared which had the success of the champlevé enamels (used above all to decorate silverware) and whose monopoly was always in Limoges. Even today, works of art are created in this city using the ancient techniques of working enamels with high heat, which made it part of the UNESCO creative cities network in 2017. Useful information for the evaluation of the object. In the last photos there are historical notes on Limoges enamels for those who want to learn more. Then we put the photo of the stained glass window of the Basilica of San Martino in Tours in France, from where our plaque was taken.

Final thoughts on the subject. The high-fire enamel is a particular type of enamel, fired at very high temperatures, on a copper base divided into various compartments to form the desired design, the liquid enamel of various colors fills the various areas (similar to the vases cloisonné, to be clear), then the firing at very high temperatures and the rapid cooling causes the enamel to vitrify giving a result very similar to the stained glass windows of ancient Gothic or Romanesque churches.

Our plaque takes up one of the stained glass windows of the Basilica of San Martino in Tours, France. Saint Martin was a bishop of Tours famous for the miracle of the cloak, galloping on his horse he met a half-naked beggar who was suffering from the bad weather of that day and gave him half of his cloak, then he met a second beggar to whom he gave the second half of the cloak and from that moment the weather became milder and the sun came out.

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Double box with a lot of bubble wrap around the object and a lot of soft material in the large cavities on all sides between the two boxes.