Attributed to Alessandro Bonaventurini
(Verona, 1515 - ?)DAMASCENED BRONZE HANDBELL, Verona, 1559
Inscribed in Latin ‘BONIS NOCET QUIS PEPERCERIT MALIS’ (‘He Hurts the Good Who Spares the Bad’), dated on the inner rim ‘1559’, with the coat of arms of the Ganbicurti family
Damascened and engraved bronze with original bronze clapper
11.5 x 8 cm
4 1/2 x 3 1/4 in
4 1/2 x 3 1/4 in
