[Italy] Pendant showing the Goddess Diana in relief, ca. 1500
Bronze, 4.9 x 3.4 cm (oval), Italy. After an antique gemstone model (pierced for suspension). The online Catalogo Generale di Beni Culturali lists an example identical to this present piece, in the Bargello, Florence (dating it 1475-1499). Their description lists several other examples in the Louvre, Berlin, Brescia, The British Museum, Metropolitan Museum New York, National Gallery of Art, a.o.