A rare pewter dish with the god Mars Depicting... Lot 305

A rare pewter dish with the god Mars Depicting Mars in the centre surrounded by four allegories of peace, abundance, war, and envy after engravings by Etienne Delaune. The rim with allegories of the four continents alternating with busts of great generals. Two soldered repairs over concentric cracks, the central node reattached. D 48.9 cm. Montbelliard, François Briot, c. 1600. Literature A further example housed in the Museum für Angewandte Kunst Cologne (inv. no. J 151), in Haedeke, Zinn. Kunstgewerbemuseum Köln, 1968, no. 206. Demiani, François Briot, Caspar Enderlein und das Edelzinn, Leipzig 1897, p. 50, note. 412 lists a further 13 examples.