367 Queen Mary

367

Queen Mary, the State of England, cast Bronze Medal, 1554, by Jacopo Nizolla da Trezzo, half-length bust of Queen Mary left, wearing richly embroidered gown and necklace with jewelled pendant, MARIA I REG ANGL FRANC E[T] HIB FIDEI DEFENSATRIX, signed below truncation, IAC TREZ, rev., Peace seated on a throne with supplicant figures beset by hailstorms to left, temple to right, heavenly rays above and water below, CECIS VI[S]VS TIMIDIS QVIES, 66mm (MI 72/20; Eim. 33; Attwood 80; Arm I, 241/3; Scher [1994], 54; Scher [1997], 4). A good quality contemporary cast, pierced at top, good very fine.

Jacopo Nizolla da Trezzo (1515 / 1519-1589), sculptor, architect, medallist and gem cutter to Cosimo III de Medici, who worked in the Netherlands and Spain and almost certainly visited England at the time this medal was made.

Provenance: Bt. D. Fearon, October, 2003.