Probably Florentine, before 1490, An Amazon, bronze plaquette, the naked figure standing facing, holding a bow and two arrows; with foliated rim, 41.8mm x 67mm (Molinier 499; Bange 573; Kress 352, fig. 305; Scaglia I 20; Bargello 222), pierced, extremely fine contemporary cast with dark patina. The image is reproduced on a Florentine bronze mortar bearing the date 1490 (see Toderi in the Bargello catalogue, p. 123.). Jeremy Warren, in the Ashmolean catalogue (p. 731), mentions an example seemingly of this plaquette in the collection of Charles I, described in the inventory made by Abraham van der Doort in 1639 as “a standing Cupid with his bow in his hand” - although this description fits more succinctly to an apparently unique plaquette in the Scaglia collection (Scaglia VIII.2).

Estimate: GBP £1’000 - £1’500