A late 15th/early 16th century leaded bronze bell, Italian


Having a pierced crown, the bell's shoulder cast with rectangular plaques of a huntsman, a wolf, a huntsman emerging from a stand of trees, a porcupine, a pair of running dogs, a snarling dog and a horseman, the body and mouth with cast cords, 23cm mouth diameter x 30cm high to top of crown
|The motives cast to the shoulders of this bell are reminiscent of 15th and 16th century Italian paintings of the hunt or chase.