Bidspirit auction | Peter Flötner (Thurgau, 1490 -

Peter Flötner (Thurgau, 1490 - Nürnberg, 1546) - Concave round bronze plaque with brown patina; 76.1 mm; 65.5 g. Prudence, seated in a shell-shaped niche, looks at herself in a mirror; opposite her, a winged Cupid also looks at the mirror. In the background, a tree trunk and a view of a city. Splendid contemporary fusion. Biblical Planiscig 447 – tab. 34; Weber 1975, p 81 n 62.5, pl. 20. Bekker, 1998; 263