A group of four alabaster relief tondi with portraits en profile, Italian 16th/18th century

in later gilt gesso frames, comprising a portrait of the Italian poet Jacopo Sannazaro (1456-1530), a portrait of the Italian humanist cardinal Pietro Bembo (1470-1547), together with two larger portraits of Orientals

All four tondi with surface soiling, one of the Orientals with minor chip to the ear and a small half-moon shaped restored chip to the rim; the frames with hairline cracks, stains, smaller losses to gilding and gesso.
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