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The distinctive leaf decoration can be associated with works by Gaspare. He was one of a number of founders active in Brescia, which was then part of the Venetian empire. Works were often exported from one centre to another. The tassel is a modern replacement, but reflects a type used when the bell was made.","physicalDescription":"A hand or hanging bell with pierced peg argent and modern tassel. Decorated around the crown with overlapping rows of veined leaf. On the waist, festoons of cornucopia with suspended bucrania, below which is a flowering foliage motif flanked by casts from an antique gem showing Faustulus finding Romulus and Remus under a fig-tree, alternating with a coat of arms overlapping a plain moulding, flanked by springs of flowers or thistles. 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