Germany, Hans Jamnitzer, The Boar Hunt, bronzed lead plaquette, signed and dated 1570, a huntsman on horseback and another on foot about to spear the boar who is attacked by dogs in the foreground; set in a scene of buildings and trees stretching into the distance beneath a sun-burst; signed and dated on a tree stump on the right, HG and 1570, 108mm (Weber 273; Jamnitzer exbibition catalogue 559), sharp early cast, about extremely fine Seemingly cast from the example in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg which is pierced twice outside the border.

Estimate: 600-800