Ornamental Panel

Signed on a tablet at upper center: P. Inscribed on each o two tablet flanking the figure at lower center: SCOF.

Copy of a niello print from the Durazzo Collection, the original of which is now in the Cabinet Rothschild at the Louvre.

The work is characyeristic of Peregrino da Cesena’s niello – manner prints and comparable in style to a number of other monogrammed ornamental panel.

The print includes Peregrino’s monogram in its simplest form and located within the composition itself. It also includes the enigmatic inscription SCOF.

The nielli of the Durazzo collection were reproduced in engravings by the owner himself, 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 amateurs. Bartsch describes these copies in his volume published in 1811, a date that therefore constitutes the terminus ante quem for the execution.