Jean de Court
French, 1509-1583

Tazza with Moses Striking Water from the Rock, 1570/75

Grisaille enamel on copper
D. 24.6 cm (9 3/4 in.) H. 13 cm (5 1/8 in.)
Signed "I. C."
The Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection, 1937.819

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Publication History

Frédéric Spitzer, La Collection Spitzer. Antiquité, Moyen-Age, Renaissance, vol. 2 (Paris, 1891), p. 67, no. 149.

Paul Chevalier, Catalogue des objets d'art et de haute curiosité...composant l'importante et précieuse collection Spitzer (Paris, 1893), no. 564, pl. 4.

William H. Monroe, "Painted Renaissance Enamels from Limoges," Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 71, 6 (1977), pp. 10-14, here 13-14, figs. 3-4.

Ownership History

Frédéric Spitzer, Paris, before 1891 [sold, Paris, 1893, see Spitzer 1891, vol. 2, p. 67 and Chevalier 1893, no. 564].