A good set of four late 16th century carved oak panels, French, circa 1600, The Virtues


Carved with personifications of Charity, Justice, Temperance and either Liberality or Peace, all four figures standing in a strapwork frame and beneath a dentilled frieze or architrave on Atlas supports, and carved elsewhere with lion masks, perching birds, flowering urns and masks, 25cm wide x 2cm deep x 40cm high, (9 1/2in wide x 0 1/2in deep x 15 1/2in high) (4)
|The figure of Justice, or Justitia, after an engraving by Hendrik Goltzius (Dutch, 1558-1617) or Jacob Matham (171-1631), published in 1593.