A NORTH EUROPEAN SILVER-GILT PLAQUETTE

APPARENTLY UNMARKED, PROBABLY DUTCH, LATE 16TH CENTURY

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A NORTH EUROPEAN SILVER-GILT PLAQUETTE
APPARENTLY UNMARKED, PROBABLY DUTCH, LATE 16TH CENTURY
Circular, cast and chased with Diana and Actaeon, surrounded by six vignettes of lovers, bathing nymphs and battle scenes amidst trees and foliage
5 3/8 in. (13.5 cm.) diam
3 oz. 1 dwt. (94 gr.)

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Lot Essay

A similar plaquette with a similar composition of a central scene surrounded by vignettes between trees, from Ovid's Metamorphoses Book VI, 330-380 is illustrated in I. Weber, Deutsche, Niederländische und Französische Renaissanceplaketten, 1500-1650, Munich, 1975, no. 677.

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