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| Keywords: Jean de Court - Plate Depicting the Month of May - Walters 44150.jpg In the foreground of a renaissance garden sit three maidens their breasts uncovered Two are weaving garlands and singing to the accompaniment of the lute played by the girl who sits between them In the garden beyond a fourth maiden picks flowers while in a grape arbor near her a chorus of five men is singing from a music-book placed on a round table Beyond the tree and the garden hedge is a distant landscape with a walled town and on the right a couple riding a horse In the clouds appear the Gemini the sign of the zodiac for the month of May The rim is decorated with four masks alternating with pairs of grotesque two-horned dragons flanking covered cups Gilt scrollwork ornaments the cavetto The reverse of the plate shows six panels of interlaced strapwork three with terms and three with flaming urns On the edge is a laurel wreath executed in gilding Between the panels and the edge the surface is filled with gilt scrollwork This plate is part of a set of dessert plates illustrating the months of the year The source of the design is a combination of two prints representing the month of May included in two allegorical sets of Twelve Months of the year published by Etienne Delaune in 1561 and 1568 respectively There are also additions from other sources including enamels by Pierre Reymond and Pierre Courteys adapting the designs of Etienne Delaune ca 1555 1585 technique painted enamel copper Diam cm 19 8 accession number 44 150 39273 Henry Durlacher Collection date and mode of acquisition unknown F Spitzer Sale Paris April 17 1893 lot 570 William T / Henry Walters Collection Baltimore date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by William T or Henry Walters Special Exhibition of the Works of Art of the Mediaeval Renaissance and More Recent Periods South Kensington Museum London 1862 place of origin Limoges France Walters Art Museum license Limoges painted enamels in the Walters Art Museum Jean Decourt Painted enamel art in the Walters Art Museum Spitzer Collection | ||||
