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Auction: 390 - Renaissance Plaquettes and Commemorative Medals featuring the Neil A. Goodman Collection - e-Auction
Lot: 56

AFTER THE MASTER OF THE MARTELLI MIRROR
Allegory of Reproduction. Plaquette after the late 15th-16th Century North Italian (possibly Mantuan) Mirror. Bronze, 170mm. Beneath a term representing the ancient fertility god Priapus, half-length figures face each other: a satyr at left, holding a cup, a Bacchante on the right, pressing milk from her breast; below them a facing bust wearing a headband sits atop a tablet inscribed: NATVRA FOVET / QVAE / NECESSITAS VRGET ("Nature encourages what necessity demands"). Identical to the example in the National Gallery, Washington, D.C. An Extremely Fine 19th European cast. Ex Pandolfini, Sculture e Oggetti d'Arte, May 31, 2019, lot 50.
From the Neil A. Goodman Collection

Estimate
$1,000 to $2,000

Starting price
$700