COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, World Medals, Germany, Augsburg, Athena gives names to the Arts, large circular Bronze Medallic Plaque, in the style of Hans Jacob Bayr of Augsburg, c.1600, Athena leads the personification of Painting past altar and into the circle of Arts and Sciences, to left toppled columns and headless statue, columned façade and townscape beyond to right, seven muses with the emblems of music, literature, arts and sciences, ornate border around, 258mm (Weber 786). The flan of slightly concave form, perhaps intended as a dish, very fine with deep brown patination, flattened thin metal attachment loops to reverse.
Weber (1975) notes a specimen in tin as being in the Hall Collection, but this example is in bronze
Estimate: £200-300