A gift from Piero to Lucrezia . . .

. . . on the occasion in 1449 of the birth of their first-born, Lorenzo (later known as Lorenzo the Magnificent), was this birth tray (desco da parto).  The scene is of 28 men on horseback pledging allegiance to Fame, a beautiful winged woman holding a sword and a statuette of Cupid as she stands on a globe atop an enormous pedestal.  The work was done in tempera, gold and silver on wood; the artist was Giovanni di Ser Giovanni Guido, known as Lo Scheggia, brother to the more famous painter Massacio.  The rear of the tray shows the Medici and Tournabuoni arms and devices.  This tray is the best executed and preserved of perhaps 28 known trays from the Renaissance period.  It was included in the list of possessions in Lorenzo's bedroom upon his death in 1492.  Today it hangs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.