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Auction: 390 - Renaissance Plaquettes and Commemorative Medals featuring the Neil A. Goodman Collection - e-Auction
Lot: 91

DOMENICO POGGINI (1520-1590)
Eleonora di Toledo (1522-1562), Duchess of Florence 1539. Medal, Florence ca. 1552. Bronze, 43mm. ELEONORA FIORENTIAE DVCISSA, Bust left wearing gown, earring and hairnet, rev.CVM PVDORE LAETA FOECVNDITAS ("Joyful fecundity with modesty"), A pea-hen sheltering its six young under its wings. Attwood 801. Eleonora would bear her husband, Cosimo I de'Medici eleven children. Pierced. Obverse scratches, scrape reverse near edge. Otherwise a Very Fine old cast.
From the Neil A. Goodman Collection

Estimate
$200 to $400

Starting price
$140