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A CIRCULAR GILT-BRONZE PLAQUETTE OF THE JUDGEMENT OF PARIS

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A CIRCULAR GILT-BRONZE PLAQUETTE OF THE JUDGEMENT OF PARIS
BY MASTER IO.F.F.

Signed 'IO.F.F.'
2¼in. (5.75cm.) diameter

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COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
J. Pope-Hennessy, Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection, London, 1965, no. 98, fig. 134
C. Fulton, 'The Master IO.F.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. 1, footnote 6 p. 158

This is one of three circular signed plaquettes all showing mythological or allegorical scenes and known in numerous examples.