Goa Museum of Christian Art Madonna in a Filigree and Enamel Frame.

A 17th Century Painting of the Madonna. 

within a Three Part Silver Filigree and Enamel Frame.

Goa Museum of Christian Art.

https://museumofchristianart.com/moca-object-detailed-view/santa-maria

The painting Indo Portuguese.

Sizes 27 x 22.5 x 2.9 cm

Inventory Number: 01.1.55

Description from the website.

The painting has multiple frames. The narrow, innermost frame is in blue-green and gold enamel, and has a quatrefoil pattern interspersed with curving stylized leaf motifs; it was probably painted by the original artist. The immediate outer enamel frame in blue-green and silver-white with touches of gold displays the artist’s whimsy, visible in the deer, peacock, hare and dolphin (?) motifs among the floral ones, all placed between diagonal pearl-edged bands. In decorative style, this frame has little to do with the central theme, leading to the possibility of a second artist, one perhaps responding to the child in the image but unfamiliar with the context. A second outer enamel frame of blue-green carries scrolling Mughal-style mango (Paisley) motifs in gold. The fine silver filigree work of the outermost frame recalls the famed Tarakasi style of Odisha

Very low resolution image.

The museum has been contacted and hopefully we will receive better photographs in due course.

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