A rare renaissance pewter salver, so-called 'Temperantiaschüssel', Probably South German, after a model by François Briot 19th century

the raised centre cast with the allegorical figure of Temperantia, within a band populated by the personifications of the Four Elements flanked by winged term figures, plain cavetto, the rim cast with allegorical figures of the Seven Liberal Arts and Minerva, all designated in Latin; the reverse centred by a coin-sized medallion cast with a male portrait in profile and inscribed on the exergue SCVLPEBAT.FRANSICVS.BRIOT., the rim engraved with the initials M.SCH., dark grey varnished patina, repair below Sapientia

Laren 1965, no. 20

Literature:
Philips / Dubbe no. 152

Related Literature:
Demiani 1867

Haedeke 1963, fig. 116

Begegnungen 1966, no. 36

Boucaud-Frégnac 1978, pp. 86-88