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Auction: 8004 - An Important Collection of Renaissance Medals & Plaquettes
Lot: 45

Paduan School (early 16th century), ´Master of the Roman Charity´ Abundance, circular gilt-bronze plaquette, 62mm., a very fine old cast, the gilding very worn, pierced behind head, two areas of solder on the reverse Abundance, or Pomona, diademed and draped, seated on a basket of fruit facing in profile to left, holding in her right hand a plate of fruit and corn-ears, and holding a bundle of more fruit (?) in her lap. There is a rough ground line but no other detail. The figure of Abundance appears on a medal of Maximilian I, dated 1516. References Bange 1922, 705; Cott p. 154; Kress 130; Maclagan p. 59d; Ricci, ii, p. 190, no. 261 Estimate £ 200-400

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