A pair of important parcel-gilt silver plaquettes

POSSIBLY BY THE MONOGRAMMIST AVB, POSSIBLY FOR ARENT VAN BOLTEN, ZWOLLE, FIRST QUARTER 17TH CENTURY

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A pair of important parcel-gilt silver plaquettes
Possibly by the monogrammist AVB, possibly for Arent van Bolten, Zwolle, first quarter 17th Century
The first plaquette depicting Christ carrying the Cross and supported by Simon of Cyrene, followed by a group of people, some on horseback with trees, rocks and a town in the background. The second plaquette depicting the Resurrection, Christ in a loin-cloth and rising from the sepulchre holding His banner in His left hand, surrounded by clouds, the foreground with three soldiers asleep, in the background rocks and bare trees
147 mm./109 mm (5.2 in.) and 141 mm./111 mm. (5.3 in.) wide
(220 gr.) (2)

Lot Essay

The present plaquettes appear to be the only known silver examples of this model. A set of twelve bronze plaquettes including two identical to the present lot are preserved in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. One may assume that the plaquettes in the Rijksmuseum may have been copied from the silver-gilt ones of which two are offered in this sale. The bronze plaquettes are fractionally smaller than the present examples and were almost certainly cast from them.
For identical plaquettes from a set of twelve but made in bronze, see Frederiks, J.W. Dutch Silver, The Hague 1952, part I nr. 116 i and 116 l. see illustration

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