Alexander the Great, Based on a woodcut by Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen, ca. 1541

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Alexander the Great, ca. 1541, French, Limoges, Painted and partly gilded enamel on copper, Diameter: 9 in. ( cm), Enamels, Based on a woodcut by Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen (Netherlandish, Oostsanen ca. 1470–1533 Amsterdam), Three of the four plaques by Nouailher in this case are from a series depicting the Nine Heroes—a grouping of valiant figures popularized by Jacques de Longuyon’s early fourteenth-century romance Les Voeux du Paon (The Vows of the Peacock

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