Master of the Orpheus Legend, The Death of Iphigenia, bronze plaquette, Iphigenia and an attendant stand on the right of a column surmounted by a statue of Minerva, approached from the left by a group of six men, their leader holding a dagger; with treble moulded border, 64.9mm (Molinier 522 = Kress 125, fig. 84 - no other example of the plaquette is recorded), pierced, a very fine contemporary cast, extremely rare, with brown patina The plaquettes given to the Master of the Orpheus Legend are known either with a triple moulded border, as here, or with a plain border as is the case with the Kress example, which appears to be the only other specimen known but is of a lesser quality to the present plaquette.

Estimate: GBP 2000 - 3000