Bronze bell. Applique decoration of the Annunciation, inscri - Lot 143

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Bronze bell. Applique decoration of the Annunciation, inscri - Lot 143
Bronze bell. Applique decoration of the Annunciation, inscriptions on the rim MATER DEI MEMENTO MEI A 1554, monogram PG. Southern Netherlands, probably Mechelen, 1554 H. 13 cm Two handbells in the collection of the Rijkmuseum, Amsterdam, can be compared with the one shown here: one with the same applique decoration, dated 1551 (inv no. N.M. 2281) from the former Hermans-Smits collection in Hermans-Smits collection in Eindhoven (1875); a second with the same handle, attributed to Johan van den Eynde, a Malines foundryman of the 1540s, (inv n° N.M.5445) Book consulted: A.L. den Blaauwen, Koper and Brons, Rijksmuseum catalog, Amsterdam, 1986, no. 327 and 329, pp 236-237
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