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A Gilded bronze Table Bell

Offered by Floris van Wanroij Fine Art

A Gilded bronze Table Bell - Decorative Objects Style Renaissance

A Gilded bronze Table Bell - Renaissance

Ref : 89735

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Period :: <= 16th century
Artist :: PETRVS GHEINEVS ME FECIT 1577
Provenance :: Southern Netherlands, Malines
Medium :: Bronze
Dimensions :: L. 5.51 inch

Decorative Objects - A Gilded bronze Table Bell

<= 16th century - A Gilded bronze Table Bell

Floris van Wanroij Fine Art

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A Gilded bronze Table Bell

Peter van den Gheyn II
Malines
Renaissance, dated ‘1577’

Bronze, with original gilding
Depicting Orpheus playing to the animals amid scrolls between lettered bands: ‘O MATER DE MEMENTO MEI’ and ‘PETRVS GHEINEVS ME FECIT 1577’ at the rim. The handle formed of two addorsed putti.
H. 14 cm.

PROVENANCE
Private collection, Scotland

CATALOGUE NOTE
An ungilded example of this bell, dated ‘1571’, is kept in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, United Sates of America (inv. nr. 59.558).

Tag
<= 16th century