Lot 86
86
AN OVAL BRONZE PLAQUETTE OF THE BETRAYAL OF CHRIST

Details
AN OVAL BRONZE PLAQUETTE OF THE BETRAYAL OF CHRIST
BY VALERIO BELLI

Inscribed 'VALERIV S VICENTINVS F'
Greenish-brown patina; several hair-line cracks
3 5/8in. (9.5cm.) high
Literature
J. Pope-Hennessy, The Study and Critism of Italian Sculpture, 1980, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, p. 216, fig. 33

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COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
J. Pope-Hennessy, Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection, London, 1965, p. 9, no. 7, fig. 355

Cast from a rock crystal plaque in the Vatican, this is one of several once mounted in the base of a Crucifix, datable to 1525.