Battle Scene, model third quarter 16th century (cast late 16th or 17th century), South German or North Italian, Copper alloy with a light brown patina., Diam. 9.1 cm, wt. 94.54 g., Plaquettes, This piece is the central decoration of a shield or the foot of a tazza, in the shape of a circular shield decorated with a continuous all’antica battle scene. Such imagery was particularly popular in sixteenth-century Southern Germany, as demonstrated by the prints of Hans Sebald Beham, Barthel Beham, and Jost Amman
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Battle Scene, model third quarter 16th century, cast late 16th, 17th, South German, North Italian, Copper alloy, light brown patina, Diam, 9.1 cm, wt, 94.54 g, Plaquettes, piece, central decoration, shield, foot, tazza, shape, circular shield, decorated, continuous ’antica, battle, scene, imagery, particularly popular, sixteenth-century Southern, Germany, demonstrated, prints, Hans Sebald, Beham, Barthel Beham, Jost Amman
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