Still life with flowers, hummingbird, butterfly, snail and vase from ca. 1425.
Southern Dutch.
One of the finest surviving examples of medieval enamel made for a princely table, this cup was probably made for the Burgundian court. It illustrates a popular legend that comments on the folly of man. A peddler is robbed by a band of monkeys while he sleeps. The peddler, seen just above the base, does not move, even when the monkeys remove his clothes. Other monkeys, after taking his goods, jump into the branches above them. The cup, which originally had a lid, is decorated with "painted" enamel, so called because the material is applied freely over the silver, without the grooves that separate the colors in champlevé enameling or the incised patterns that provide guidelines for applying translucent enamel. The unusual and adept grisaille (shades of gray) enamel technique can be found on several other surviving objects.
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