Pennsylvania Museum BulletinNumber 29, January 1910 . an The carved decoration, while rather clumsily executed, possesses a charmnot to be found in the more conventional work of the European cabinetmakers of the same peril id. The hinges and key-hole escutcheons, of hand-wrought iron, are of the same age. It has been presented by Mr. JohnT. Morris. BULLETIN OF THE PENNSYLVANIA MUSEUM II EARLY FRENCH ENAMELS Among the earlier painted enamels, in the Limoges style, are some whichbear the signature of Monvaerni, a painter about whom nothing seems to beknown. I lis work, however, is characteristic
Pennsylvania Museum BulletinNumber 29, January 1910 . an The carved decoration, while rather clumsily executed, possesses a charmnot to be found in the more conventional work of the European cabinetmakers of the same peril id. The hinges and key-hole escutcheons, of hand-wrought iron, are of the same age. It has been presented by Mr. JohnT. Morris. BULLETIN OF THE PENNSYLVANIA MUSEUM II EARLY FRENCH ENAMELS Among the earlier painted enamels, in the Limoges style, are some whichbear the signature of Monvaerni, a painter about whom nothing seems to beknown. I lis work, however, is characteristic, and once seen can readily berecognized. The late Mr. William M. Lallan, of New York, an authority onenamels, when visiting this Museum in July last, recognized in the BloomfieldMoore collection a pair of panels labeled ( )ld French, which he unhesitatinglypronounced to be the work of this artist, which dates back probably to the latterpart of the fifteenth century, the subjects being The Entombment and TheAscension. The former is here L IMOGES ENAMELSMvibuted to Monvaerni Late Fifteenth Century The colors of the enamels, which are dull and subdued in tone, include anopaque, medium blue, transparent golden browns, clarets and greens. Theflesh of all the figures is painted in white, and the effect of gold in the aureolesurrounding the risen Saviours head is produced by the bright copper showingthrough a colorless enamel. 12 J5ULLETIN OF THE PENNSYLVANIA MUSEUM A RARE PERSIAN PLAQUE The Museum has acquired a large Persian plaque of the seventeenthcentury, covered with the rare and highly prized celadon, or martabani glaze,which is believed to be the finest example of its kind in this country. The word Celadon has come to be extensively used to indicate a sage-green or sea-green color, which is found on stoneware and porcelain producedin China, and potter)- made in other eastern countries. It was derived fromthe name of a character in a pastoral romance, entitled LA
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