Lot Essay
These reliefs belong to a series of such items, four of which are in the Liebieghaus in Frankfurt. For a discussion of the origin of these reliefs see B. von Götz-Mohr, Liebieghaus-museum alter Plastik - nachantike kleinplastische Bildwerke, III, Die deutschsprachigen Länder 1500-1800, Melsungen, 1989, nos. 38-41, pp. 90-91.