Featured Religious enamel on copper ID plz

Discussion in 'Antique Discussion' started by Sdcookie2, Sep 6, 2025.

  1. Sdcookie2

    Sdcookie2 Well-Known Member

    Hiya all

    Does anyone have any information on this piece?
    Thank you Steve PXL_20250904_205048259.MP_copy_1267x712.jpg PXL_20250904_205101640.MP_copy_1267x712.jpg PXL_20250904_205106433_copy_712x1267.jpg PXL_20250904_205105142_copy_712x1267.jpg
     
  2. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    I used to see similar ones in religious paraphernalia shops in the 60s here in the Netherlands.
    Anything on the back?
     
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  3. Debora

    Debora Well-Known Member

    A triptych. And I'd think that was about right.

    Debora
     
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  4. kentworld

    kentworld Well-Known Member

    Screams 1960s to me. Are those ceramic tiles or enamel on metal?
     
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  5. kentworld

    kentworld Well-Known Member

  6. Sdcookie2

    Sdcookie2 Well-Known Member

    Nothing on the back
     
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  7. johnnycb09

    johnnycb09 Well-Known Member

    Its hideous . Because Im such a caring person I'll take it off your hands. I'll even pay postage ! :) Just kidding I LOVE it .
     
  8. Iconodule

    Iconodule Well-Known Member

    I love modern versions of traditional medieval & Renaissance themes. But what is the image above Mary the Mother and John? Can you supply an in-focus detail? Does anyone have an idea? Possibly the rending of the veil of the Temple? (Luke 23:45) Or is the gold a bipedal/human form, making the scene a stylized Resurrection image (golden glow for resurrected Christ???) and the dome a reference to the Early Christian Holy Sepulchre??? Presumably, artist had something in mind, but it doesn't seem very clear.

    Trees (the side panels/wings of the triptych) are usually not part of the core Crucifixion iconography (unless just part of a landscape background), but one living and one dead tree often appear in Renaissance Resurrection scenes (Ex.: Piero della Francesca). But here they both seem to have leaves and fruit (So did the artist add them as foreshadowing the Resurrection or with no particular meaning--just easier than portraying a detailed Calvary scene with Centurion Longinus /soldiers on one side and Caiaphas and priests/elders on the other?)
     
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  9. Sdcookie2

    Sdcookie2 Well-Known Member

    PXL_20250904_205106433_copy_712x1267~2.jpg
     
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  10. Iconodule

    Iconodule Well-Known Member

    Now I am not even sure that is a dome surmounting the dark blue part. I hate it when I cannot ID an iconographic detail.
     
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  11. ola402

    ola402 Well-Known Member

    It reminds me of the portable "altars" that I saw in the Uffizi in Florence. They said that traveling priests folded them up and carried them from village to village that were too small for a full time priest.
     
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