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Plaquettes 1400-1550
'Abundance', plaquette
'Abundance', plaquette
'Abundance'
Plaquette
Italy (Florence)
About 1450-1500
Bronze
Museum no. 271-1864
This was cast from an amethyst intaglio carving in the collection of Cardinal Pietro Barbo. It was presumably commissioned by Barbo himself as it shows his coat of arms on the rim.
