Coat of Arms of the Bentivoglio family

Copy, on the same verso, from a niello formerly belonging to the Durazzo collection, now  at Lawrence.

The coat of arms depicted is that of the ruling Bentivoglio family of Bologna.

The nielli of the Durazzo collection were reproduced in prints by owner’s will, between the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century, in Venice - as also specified by Malaspina in his catalog of 1824 - constituting a series that was circulated and collected by the amateurs.