plaquette;
forgery
- Museum number
- 1926,0611.10
- Description
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Plaquette; bronze; circular; gilt ornament; obverse: satyr making love to woman over an altar, trees on either side; reverse: inscription; from a stock of an Italian forger, probably after an engraving by Marcantonio.
- Production date
- 19thC (?)
- Dimensions
-
Diameter: 6.10 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- One of fourteen plaquettes donated in 1926 by W. L. Hildburgh considered to be fakes. The group was analysed by x-ray fluorescence (XRF) c.1989 and the results can be found in the publication by J. Graham Pollard, 'The Plaquette Collections in the British Museum' in Alison Luchs (ed.), 'Italian Plaquettes. Symposium: Papers' (Washington, c.1989), pp.227-45.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated events
- Named in Inscription: Triumph of Priapus
- Acquisition date
- 1926
- Acquisition notes
- Purchased in Florence.
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1926,0611.10
