Netherlandish, a series of religious rectangular bronze plaquettes, circa 1600 or later, comprising Ecce Homo, Immaculate Conception, St. Jerome, Mary Magdalene, St. Didactus (Diego of Alcalà) and St. Peter, mainly 102 x 72mm (cf. Weber [Spanish school] 1039, 1040, 1041.2, 1041.4, 1041.12 and 1043), mainly very fine, the St. Jerome and St. Peter with brown patinas, all with suspension loops (6). For the St. Jerome and St. Peter (here illustrated) see Ashmolean catalogue, vol III, 505 and 506 where the attribution of this well-known series of plaquettes is made to the Netherlands, often for export to Spain.
(700-1000 GBP)