Lot Essay
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
J. Pope-Hennessy, Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection, London, 1965, no. 101, p. 34, fig. 132
C. Fulton, 'The Master IOF.F. and the Function of Plaquettes', in Italian Plaquettes' (ed. A. Luchs), in Studies in the History of Art, vol. 22, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 1989, p. 146, fig. 4, cat. no. I, 6
The unusual shape is designed to fit the pommel of the hilt of a sword. For the identity of the master signing I.O.F.F. see T. de Gregory, 'Giovanni da Crema and his seated Goddess,' in Burlington Magazine, 1950, p. 159.
J. Pope-Hennessy, Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection, London, 1965, no. 101, p. 34, fig. 132
C. Fulton, 'The Master IOF.F. and the Function of Plaquettes', in Italian Plaquettes' (ed. A. Luchs), in Studies in the History of Art, vol. 22, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 1989, p. 146, fig. 4, cat. no. I, 6
The unusual shape is designed to fit the pommel of the hilt of a sword. For the identity of the master signing I.O.F.F. see T. de Gregory, 'Giovanni da Crema and his seated Goddess,' in Burlington Magazine, 1950, p. 159.