TUSCANY, LATE 15TH/EARLY 16TH CENTURY

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AN ITALIAN GILT GESSO RELIEF-DECORATED ARMORIAL PANEL
TUSCANY, LATE 15TH/EARLY 16TH CENTURY
Originally conceived as the front panel of a cassone, the rectangular panel depicting a lion attacking a deer, flanked to each side by foliage issuing a coat-of-arms and a lioness, within a later brown-painted frame, the armorial shields altered
19 in. (48 cm.) high; 63¾ in. (162 cm.) wide

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拍品專文

This panel belongs to a serie of cassone's fronts among which are the following related examples, including one depicting the virtues and vices, in The Hermitage, St Petersburg, see below; one in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris; and another one in the Museo di Palazzo Venezia, Rome. In most cases, the composition of the scenes are related to the designs of Antonio Pollaiuolo (1432-1498), the celebrated Florentine artist who shared with his brother Piero a busy workshop patronised by the Medici family. For related examples, see L. Faenson, (et. al.), Italian Cassoni, Leningrad, 1983, plates 33-37.