Small rectangular cast iron plaque the cast iron frame attached and decorated with a simple repeating pattern of anthemion motifs and beading the central scene of The Last Supper after the original by Leonardo da Vinci with the text MEN DICO VOBIS QUIA UNNUS VESTRUM ME TRADITURUS EST And as they did eat he said Verily I say unto you that one of you shall betray me from Matthew 26 below

The Last Supper

After a model by Francesco Putinati, Royal Prussian Iron Foundry, Berlin

1819

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