"Pax - Italy 16th Century - Bronze Plaquette"
Pax in bronze representing a Pietà with Mary Magdalene in an entablature frame supported by two powerful caryatids resting on lion paws. Full copper bronze with a superb chocolate patina.
Italy, 16th century.
Height: 14.7 cm
Width: 10.1 cm
Missing the cross at the top.
Bibliography: Jeremy Warren, Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture, A Catalog of the Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Vol. 3, cat. 414.
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