Italy, Electrotype medal 1550
Italy. Renaissance. Electrotype Medal 1550 (63 mm, 109.08 g), attributed to Leone Leoni (c.1509-1590). Ippolita Di Ferdinando Gonzaga (1535-1563).
Obv. HIPPOLITA GONZAGA FERDINAND I FIL ÆT AN XV, bust left, dress with high collar, necklace and scarf.
Rev. NEC TEMPVS NEC AETAS, Ippolita, surrounded by attributes of the arts and time, reaches upward to the moon and seven stars
Cf. Arm II, 213/3; Kress Appendix 433 (cast bronze).
Taken from a very fine original. Good very fine.
From an old Swiss private collection formed before 1942.