A renaissance pewter salver, so-called 'Marsschüssel', Caspar Enderlein, Nürnberg, partly after a model by François Briot Circa 1600

the raised centre cast with the seated figure of Mars surrounded by the allegorical figures of the Four Elements and thus inscribed, plain cavetto, the border cast with the allegorical figures of the Four Continents and thus inscribed, within oval cartouches, alternating with four male figures representing Julius Caesar, Ninus, Cyrus and Alexander the Great, the reverse later engraved with the initials S.R.M.; the reverse cast in the centre with a portrait of a man in profile, the exergue inscribed SCVLPEBAT.CASBAR.ENDERLEIN, repair soldering in several places, dark grey varnished patina

Literature:
Philips / Dubbe no. 106     

Related Literature:
Demiani 1867

Haedeke 1963, fig. 120

Hintze 1964, pp. 46-52

Keulen Zinn 1976, no. 206

Dusseldorf 1981, no. 23
 
Beekhuizen 1998, pp. 149-151, fig. 222