10 Nielli

Italian

British Museum

15th Century

10 silver plates engraved in niello by a Florentine goldsmith with subjects from the Old and New Testaments.

• Medium: engraving
• Dimensions: 8 x 8 cm
• ArtFunded in: 1922
• Presented by C S Gubenkian through The Art Fund

Provenance

Collection of William Beckford; detached from a book- binding at Hampton Palace; Christies, 1919.

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