Watch List notes:

South Germany, Mars, oval bronze plaquette, 2nd half of 16th century, Mars standing, bare-chested, holding shield and sword beneath two trees, his cuirass on the ground 65.2mm x 48.3mm (Bange (1923) 5808 and pl. 25 for example in lead), pierced, very fine contemporary cast. Ex Luc Smolderen collection. The iconography of this plaquette type in relation to an early 17th century lead plaquette of Pluto and Cerberus is discussed by Banfield, E., "Antike Götter in Blei", in Anzeiger des Germanischen Nationalmuseums, Jahresbericht 2011, pp. 111-120.
(400-600 GBP)