Ewer Stand with the Judgment of Moses Pierre Reymond (1513-ca. 1584) Limoges, France, 1559 Enameled and gilded copper Pierre Reymond headed the most prolific enamel workshop in sixteenth-century Limoges and is best known for the creation of exquisite tablewares. He is also credited with popularizing, if not originating, the grisaille (monochromatic painting in shades of gray) and tinted grisaille techniques. His compositions are typically drawn from sixteenth-century engravings of the Old Testament and engravings associated with Italian Mannerists at the court of Francis I and the School of Fontainebleau. This seemingly odd marriage of biblical subjects and bizarre, antique-inspired embellishments on the underside of these vessels may be seen as a reflection of the tension that existed between Counter Reformation and Renaissance values in the middle of the sixteenth century.