Limoges. Attributed to Maitre IC or Jean COURT, late 16th...

Limoges. Attributed to Maitre IC or Jean COURT, late 16th century.
" Sainte Carissime ".
Curved plate in polychrome painted enamel with gold highlights.
To its right, the dove of the Holy Spirit in a cloud. Inscription all around DNE * EX * OMNIB [VS] FLORIB [VS] -ELEGISTI - TIBI - LILIVM - ESDP.E - C - V. (And among all the fleur-de-lys).
Inscription in the lower part SANCTA - CHARISSIMA O[RA] * P[RO] * N[OBIS] * (Holy Charisma, pray for us).
Salmon counter-enamel.
Dim: 12.5 9.5 cm.
Expert: Laurence Fligny
In a golden wooden frame with scrolls (accidents).
Sainte Carissime is a holy limousine, relative of saint
Yriex, founder of the monastery of Attanum, today
Saint-Yriex-la-Perche (Haute-Vienne). The relics of saint
Carissime rest in the church of Saint-Yriex. It seems
that this is an unpublished representation in
the Limoges enamel factory.
The Saint holds an open book in her right hand and a lily in the other. The saint wears a veil in her hair, a dress with a square neckline and a coat with one side held at the belt, barefoot.
The attribution to Master IC is based here on a comparison with a plaque depicting Saint Genevieve kept in the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lyon (inv. H 465). Monogrammed IC, the plaque shows the Parisian saint, like Saint Carissime, represented against a background of starry skies and in a landscape using the same colours, the inspiring
dove being replaced, in clouds, by a
cherub lighting the candle held by the saint.
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