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| Keywords: Jean de Court - Apollo and the Muses - Walters 44207.jpg This platter pictures the Greco-Roman god Apollo and the nine Muses playing musical instruments on Mount Helicon A nymph reclines in the Hippocrene the spring sacred to poets which had sprung up from the ground where the hoof of the winged horse Pegasus had struck Court based his composition on a print by Giorgio Ghisi after adrawing by Luca Penni a follower of Raphael The enamellers of the late 16th century returned to the use of polychromy The brilliant effects which they achieved were altogether different from those of the very early enamellers and depended on the extensive use of foils placed in between the layers of enamel between 1555 1585 Renaissance enamel over foil on copper cm 41 5 54 accession number 44 207 563 Dudley Coults Marjoribanks date and mode of acquisition unknown Sir Richard Wallace date and mode of acquisition unknown George Robinson Harding London date and mode of acquisition unknown Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1901 place of origin Limoges France Walters Art Museum license Limoges painted enamels in the Walters Art Museum Jean Decourt Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Apollo and the Muses Limoges enamel - 16th century | ||||
