Watch List notes:

*Spanish or Netherlandish (early 17th century), Christ in the Carpenter's Shop, rectangular bronze plaquette, Joseph handing a saw to the Christ Child while in the background Mary coils wool onto a spool, 100mm x 71mm (Weber 1038; Bange 1059; Scaglia XII.2, C1, this piece), with suspension loop, extremely fine contemporary cast [Clifford lot 408] Jeremy Warren in the recently published Plaquette volume of Renaissance Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum, pp. 1047-48 puts forward the arguments for suggesting that this series of religious plaquettes was produced in the Netherlands, many of which were then exported to Spain where others may have been copied. (500 - 700)