Watch List notes:

*The Master P.P.R. (formerly Pietro Paulo Galeotti), Francesco Guereri de' Fermi, bronze medal, cuirassed bust left; signed behind truncation, p.p.r., rev., standing figures of War and Peace; et belli et pacis amator, 50 mm (Attwood 840; Arm. I, 230, 12), somewhat rubbed but a very fine contemporary cast with brown patina [Clifford lot 163]. Traditionally the medals signed p.p.r. were given to Pietro Paolo Galeotti who worked in the mint at Florence and was responsible for a series of struck medals of Cosimo I de' Medici. But none of the cast medals signed p.p.r. depict Florentines and they are of infinitely finer style and composition to the struck medals. They are the work of another artist whose identity has yet to be revealed. According to Attwood nothing is known of the sitter although he may be the same individual portrayed on a small medal by Leone Leoni (Attwood 4). The reverse design of the present medal may be after Battista Franco, the Venetian mannerist painter and print-maker. (600 - 800)