The cassone in question seems to be a commentary of the the empty Dowry fund 'Monte della Doti' The Mountain of debt (the mountain in the boat) has a gilded cage upon it. Deposit made at 5yrs held for 15 years, by 1440 the fund was deeply in debt and the husband had trouble getting the Dowry after m...

Aye, that is wonderful Huck! Apparently this fashion craze of plaquettes was started by Filarete. Here is a self portrait. 1433? Rome. Filarete Plaquette Rome.jpg Beginning in the 1420s, a number of small cast bronze reliefs depicting the Virgin and Child were made in the circle of Donatello that ma...

On this site number #60 is a plaquette given with two others related to the same event. The event celebrated, was that of Andrea Doria in his role in the release of Leoni from a Papal gallery where he had been condemned the previous year for assaulting the Pope's jeweller Pellegrino di Leuti. They w...

Two bronze Placchettes from a German producer. Note the size.
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of- ... 986.319.43

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fashion-Devotion-Contemplation-Renaissance-Plaquettes/dp/3039110683/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1371115611&sr=1-1 1430's medals were given, 1440's plaquettes for diplomatic gifts and for Military accomplishment, they then became mass produced, and used for mode...

To add.. it was a gift to the Metropolitian Art Museum by J Pierpont Morgan in 1917.
It is Carolingian, or more correctly Frankish. The site said it was found in France, my book says Northern Italy, I guess the boundary in the 9th century was blurred.

This is a very early roundel (9th Century) Italian, a personification of the Moon.

http://www.montgomerycollege.edu/~bevans/david%20and%20judith%20as%20metaphors.pdf Page 42 roundels (3) http://www.bowers.org/files/gems-of-the-medici.pdf The figurative roundels depicted moments from ancient Greek and Roman mythology. Taken from a variety of stories, the scenes are primarily throug...

Hi Robert- Good to see your fingerprints! I could not resist....... I say yes because he is the Fool rolling the dice for the next 6 images. I say yes because he is Orion always in my sky down under (not that one can talk about that here :) ) and according to this site...he holds just as much Power ...

Phaeded- well done! All the way down 500 years or so from Bembo's Lancelot to Waite's Holy Grail depictions. I now understand Sister Joachim's (of my youth schooling) recounting Graal legends and the Holy Spirit, Saint Catherines Mystical Marriage and her least understood preachings, The' Just 'of t...