Images(2)

Isotta degli Atti

Matteo de' Pasti (Italian, about 1420–after 1420)

about 1450

Object PlaceItaly

Medium/TechniqueMetal; cast bronze

DimensionsDiameter and weight: 85 mm (3 3/8 in.)

Credit LineLucy Stone Brewer Fund

Accession number23.207

On View

Not on view

ClassificationsNumismatics

Collections

Europe

InscriptionsObverse: Inscribed at edge "·ISOTA·ARIMINENSI·FORMA·ET·VIRTVTE·ITALIE·DECORI·[symbol]" ["To Isotta of Rimini, the ornament of Italy for beauty and virtue"]. Reverse: Inscribed above "OPVS·MATH[EI·DE·]PASTIS·[symbol]" and below "·M·CCCC·XLVI·".

ProvenanceBy 1875, C.C. Perkins, Boston; 1909, transferred from C.C. Perkins to Charles B. Perkins, Boston; 1923, sold by Charles B. Perkins to the MFA for $1000 [see note 1]. (Accession Date: April 5, 1923)

NOTES:
[1] MFA accession numbers 23.202-209 were acquired together for $1000.