Uploaded April 2022 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Made in Limoges, France by a prolific workshop that used the maker’s mark ‘IC’, the Joseph plates are a group of painted enamel plates dated to around 1580-1600 that illustrate the story of Joseph from the biblical book of Genesis. Join curator Suzanne Higgott and Dr Julia Poole, formerly a keeper in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, who will discuss the sources and significance of the Joseph plates, and the reasons for the popularity of this story in the later 16th century.
For more from our Meet the Expert series join us next month, when Enriqueta Harris Frankfort Curatorial Fellow Dr Akemi Luisa Herráez Vossbrink, and her guest Professor Claudia Hopkins, Director of Durham University’s Zurbarán Centre for Spanish and Latin American Art, will discuss the works of artist and adventurer, David Roberts: youtu.be/l1x0LYy4ZEQ
Made in Limoges, France by a prolific workshop that used the maker’s mark ‘IC’, the Joseph plates are a group of painted enamel plates dated to around 1580-1600 that illustrate the story of Joseph from the biblical book of Genesis. Join curator Suzanne Higgott and Dr Julia Poole, formerly a keeper in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, who will discuss the sources and significance of the Joseph plates, and the reasons for the popularity of this story in the later 16th century.
For more from our Meet the Expert series join us next month, when Enriqueta Harris Frankfort Curatorial Fellow Dr Akemi Luisa Herráez Vossbrink, and her guest Professor Claudia Hopkins, Director of Durham University’s Zurbarán Centre for Spanish and Latin American Art, will discuss the works of artist and adventurer, David Roberts: youtu.be/l1x0LYy4ZEQ
