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  • Aquamanile, Germany, early 13th century
    18 July 2017, by FABIEN

    Bronze, cast iron, applied handle 24 x 25 cm Bequest of Marie Adèle Jeanne Martin Le Roy, gift of Jacques Martin Le Roy, 1929 Inv. 27132 © Les Arts Décoratifs If you would like to use this image, please contact the Picture Library This strange object, called an “aquamanile” (from the Latin aqua, “water”, and manus, “hand”) was originally a vessel to hold water for washing hands. Kept in the sacristy, it was used by priests before and after services. Artists gave these liturgical objects fanciful (...)

  • Tapestry “The King”, France, 1525-1530
    18 July 2017, by FABIEN

    Wool and silk Gift of Jules Maciet, 1890 Inv. 6200 © Les Arts Décoratifs If you would like to use this image, please contact the Picture Library

  • Antonio de Carro, “The Virgin and Child Surrounded by Saints”, Emilia (Italy), 14th century
    29 June 2017, by FABIEN

    Tempera on wood, gold ground Inscription on the predella: 1398 228 x 236 cm Bequest of Émile Peyre, 1905 Inv. PE 80 and PE 1373 © Les Arts Décoratifs If you would like to use this image, please contact the Picture Library The central section of this polyptych (multi-panel) altarpiece, which stands slightly higher than the others, represents the Virgin and Child with a donor monk kneeling at the Virgin’s feet. The scene above shows Christ on the cross, flanked by the Virgin and St John, and (...)

  • Stemmed glass, façon de Venise, Probably France, late 16th century
    18 July 2017, by FABIEN

    Mold-blown and heat-formed blown glass H. 16.4 cm; max. diam. 15.3 cm Acquired with the support of Michel and Hélène David-Weill, 2001 Inv. 2000.1.1 © Les Arts Décoratifs If you would like to use this image, please contact the Picture Library From the second half of the fifteenth century onward, the Venetian glassmakers who had settled on the island of Murano developed a new type of very pure, transparent glass called cristallo (in reference to rock crystal). Thanks to this invention, and to (...)

  • “Skeleton in a shroud, seated on a tomb”, France, 1547
    18 July 2017, by FABIEN

    Ivory, carved in the round Inscription on the phylactery: 1547 9 x 8.8 x; 3 cm Bequest of Baronne Henri de Rothschild, 1927 Inv. 25660 © Les Arts Décoratifs If you would like to use this image, please contact the Picture Library Death, wrapped in a shroud, sits on the edge of his tomb. The skeleton rests one elbow on an hourglass; his right hand is on a partially unrolled phylactery bearing a French inscription that means “you are you will become what I am.” This type of inscription was very (...)

  • Chest with iron scrollwork, France, 14th century
    29 June 2017, by FABIEN

    Oak and wrought iron, butt jointed boards, mortise and tenon assembly 89 x 165 x 79 cm Bequest of Émile Peyre, 1905 Inv. PE 982 © Les Arts Décoratifs / photo: Jean Tholance If you would like to use this image, please contact the Picture Library Medieval chests were mainly used to store everyday objects. During the Middle Ages when people tended to move frequently – and sometimes urgently, for political or financial reasons – chests were useful containers for all kinds of items: folding or (...)

  • Frieze from the castle of Vélez Blanco: “The Birth of Hercules”, Spain, c. 1510-1520
    29 June 2017, by FABIEN

    Carved pine 90 x 600 x 10 cm Bequest of Émile Peyre, 1905 Inv. PE 1812 A © Les Arts Décoratifs If you would like to use this image, please contact the Picture Library During the summer of 1992, while work was being carried out in the basement of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, ten carved friezes were found in a recess where they had been carefully stored then forgotten, probably since their arrival at the museum in 1904. Six of them depict the Triumphs of Caesar, based on the series of (...)

  • Casa Pirota workshop, “The Martyrdom of St Cecilia”, Faenza (Italy), c. 1525
    18 July 2017, by FABIEN

    Majolica Inscription, first column on the left: RA-VR-IN-ME Diam. 25.4 cm Bequest of Alexandrine Grandjean, Grandjean collection, 1923 Inv. GR 166 © Les Arts Décoratifs If you would like to use this image, please contact the Picture Library Cecilia is a young Roman woman thought to have lived in the second or third century. Although raised as a Christian, she was forced to marry a pagan named Valerian. On their wedding night, Cecilia persuaded her new husband to respect her vow of (...)

  • Armoire with four doors and sixteen profile medallions, Northern France or southern Netherlands, c. 1510
    29 June 2017, by FABIEN

    Carved oak 232 x 176 x 70 cm Acquired with the support of Michel and Hélène David-Weill, 2002 Inv. 2001.177.1 © Les Arts Décoratifs / photo: Jean Tholance If you would like to use this image, please contact the Picture Library This armoire comprises sixteen panels, expertly carved with medallions containing eight male and eight female profiles. These profile heads, wearing a variety of outlandish hats, create a harmonious decoration on the armoire. The more crudely carved scrolls surrounding (...)

  • Dirck Crabeth (known c. 1520-1574) and his workshop, stained glass “Biblical scenes: The Capture of the Ark of the Covenant”, Leiden (Holland), 1543
    18 July 2017, by FABIEN

    Grisaille, silver stain, glass, lead Inscription on the stained glass: 1543 109.5 x 64.8 cm Bequest of Andrée Sablé, from the collection of her father, Georges Néret, 1979 Inv. 46517 B © Les Arts Décoratifs If you would like to use this image, please contact the Picture Library These stained glass panels, desgned for a secular setting, were donated to the Musée des Arts Décoratifs by the daughter of the master glassmaker Georges Néret. They are among the few surviving examples of the casement (...)