Watch List notes:

Northern Italy, Padua? (c. 1450-1480), The Virgin and Child with Angels and Cherubs, bronze-gilt plaquette/pax, the Virgin standing on a plinth holding the Child, with cherubs at her feet arranging a garland and flanked by four angels holding torches; behind her is a domed shell niche from which garlands hang supported by cherubs atop pillars, 92 x 72mm, set within a frame with scrollwork borders, the back fitted with a stand for use as a pax, the whole 115.5 x 95mm (Molinier 381; Scaglia VI.3, A2, this piece; Kress 303; Warren, Ashmolean, 382), gilding worn, a fine early cast Ex Alain Edrei (1931-2021) collection [inventory number 193 in red on the reverse]; ex Morton & Eden, 10-11 June 2014, lot 193 and Astarte sale XVIII, Lugano, 2005, lot 367 (where attributed to the Ferrarese artist Domenico di Paris - but see Warren, op. cit. p. 921).

Estimate: 1500 - 2000 GBP