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Lot 307
Numismatics - Victorian florin, another; various silver three penny bits; etc; a bronze George P. Regent commemorative George III Wellington Waterloo medallion, 'June 1815: T.Wyon'; a Queen Victoria commemorative medalion 1897, another Edward VII crowned 1902; other early 20th century medallions; Mary II, George I, II and III and later; various 20th century pennies; farthings; etc qty
Lot 458
Matteo de’ Pasti, Leone Battista Alberti (1404-72, thecelebrated architect), bronze medal, bust left, rev., winged eye within laurel wreath, 90mm (Hill 161; Arm. I, 171, 1; Kress 56 = Pollard 40), pierced, fields tooled, old cast. Provenance: Count Emeryk Hutten Czapski (1897-1979), grandson of the celebrated collector, numismatist and historian of the same name; thence by descent.
Lot 460
*Antonio Pisano called Pisanello (c. 1393-1455), Filippo Maria Visconti (Duke of Milan, 1412-47), bronze medal, bust to right wearing hat with soft top; long inscription giving his titles of Duke of Milan, Count of Pavia and Angera, Lord of Genoa, rev., the duke in full armour on horseback left holding lance upright; to the right, a page on horseback and between them, an armed horseman to front; in the background, a mountainous landscape with buildings and, on the right, a colossal female statue stands amid the buildings; signed below, OPVS PISANI PICTORIS, 102.5mm (Hill 21; Arm. I, 8, 23; Kress 3 = Pollard 2; Syson & Gordon 66, 2.24), pierced, a few knocks in obverse field, a very fine contemporary cast with brown patina. Much has been written on the subject of Pisanello’s medals for he is universally acknowledged as the inventor of the portrait medal, an art form that he made popular and which flourished thereafter in Italy and beyond. His first medal has generally been regarded as that of John VIII Palaeologus who was in Italy in 1438-39 to attend the ecumenical council of the Greek and Latin churches held initially in Ferrara and later moved to Florence. The present medal of Filippo Maria Visconti has also been put forward as a contender for Pisanello’s first medal – and Syson and Gordon in Pisanello, Painter to the Renaissance Court (2001) date the medal of Visconti to c.1435-40 and that of the Byzantine emperor to c.1438-41. They show how the chivalric reverses have been influenced by, in the case of Visconti, Pisanello’s fresco of St. George and the Princess of Silena (c.1434-38) and in the case of John VIII Palaeologus, Pisanello’s painting of The Vision of St. Eustace (c. 1438-42). The duke was notoriously shy of his appearance (as related by his secretary Pier Candido Decembrio) and would only allow Pisanello to portray him, so that all other depictions of him depend upon the medal. Provenance: Collection Vicomte de Jonghe, J. Schulman, 24 November 1936, lot 3 and pl. III.
Lot 461
Attributed to Emiliano Orfini da Foligno, Pope Paul II (1464-71), bronze Consistory medal, the Pope in Consistory, rev., the Last Judgement, 78mm (Hill 775; Arm. II, 33, 19 and III, 163, e; Kress 215 = Pollard 245), pierced, very fine early cast (taken from a struck original of which two are recorded in gold). The medal is thought to commemorate either the Consistory held in December 1466, when the Pope excommunicated George Podiebrad, King of Bohemia, or that which followed in Easter Week 1467 when the excommunication was confirmed. Provenance: Count Emeryk Hutten Czapski (1897-1979), grandson of the celebrated collector, numismatist and historian of the same name; thence by descent.
Lot 462
Bertoldo di Giovanni, The Pazzi Conspiracy (1478), bronze medal, bust of Lorenzo de’ Medici above the high altar of the Duomo, rev., bust of Giuliano de’ Medici above the opposite side of the altar, 64mm (Hill 915; Arm. I, 59, 1; Kress 252 = Pollard 286), flaw on left side of obverse, two edge marks, early cast
Lot 463
Jacopo Nizzolo da Trezzo, Gianello della Torre of Cremona (celebrated horologist and engineer), bronze medal, IANELLVS TVRRIAN CREMON HOROLOG ARCHITECT, draped and bearded bust right, rev., VIRTVS NVNQ DEFICIT, the Fountain of Science: seven men and a boy receiving water from the fountain, 81.2mm (Attwood 91; Arm. I, 170, 38; Kress 441a = Pollard 501; Scher, Currency of Fame 55), tiny piercing at edge, some scratches in obverse field, an extremely fine contemporary cast of high quality with dendritic patterns in the brown patina. The present medal reveals two flaws in the obverse field which appear to replicate cracks in the original wax model from which it was cast. Pollard called the reverse the Fountain of Virtue, given the inscription and, following Kress, suggested the medal commemorates the making of a famous clock for Charles V in 1529. Attwood retains the more generally held interpretation of the reverse as the Fountain of Science. The portrait bears out Leone Leoni’s 1556 description of the sitter as “this bull in human form” and there is a marble bust of him in Toledo. An automaton of a friar supposedly made by Gianello della Torre and commissioned by Philip II is in the Smithsonian Museum, Washington DC. Provenance: H.G. Gutekunst collection (Stuttgart), Hirsch XXVIII, 7 November 1910, lot 40; and Arthur Löbbecke collection, J. Schulman, 17 June 1929, lot 72.
Lot 465
Pope Innocent XI Odescalchi (1676-89), bronze medal, 1687, bust right with hand raised in benediction, rev., rowing boat with four oarsmen, 93mm, obverse gilt, fine old cast; Alexander VIII Ottoboni (1689-91), bronze-gilt medal by Hamerani, rev., celestial globe, 37mm, with loop for suspension, about extremely fine (2) Provenance: Count Emeryk Hutten Czapski (1897-1979), grandson of the celebrated collector, numismatist and historian of the same name; thence by descent.
Lot 466
Vatican, annual silver medals (4) of Leo XIII, years 13 and 18, Pius X, year 4 and Benedict XV, year 6; with bronze medals of Clement IX, Clement X (2), Clement XIII (2), Pius VI, Pius VII (L. 1279, 1305, 1367, 1878, 1886, 1933, 2017), including restrikes; other bronze medals of Leo XIII, Pius IX (prize medal, 50mm) and Pius XI for the inauguration of the extension to the Vatican Museum, 1932, 82mm, very fine to extremely fine (14)
Lot 469
George II, Illustrious Figures, set of 6 bronze medals from the series by J. Dassier, c. 1740, comprising Francis Bacon, William Shakespeare, John Milton, John Locke, Isaac Newton and John Churchill, 42mm (MI 457/68, 245/14, 208/42, 564/229, 271/72, 470/85), in contemporary velvet-lined and embossed green leather case, extremely fine (6)
Lot 476
George III, Christ’s College, Cambridge, Porteous medal in bronze, by J. Phillp, bust of George III left, rev., gateway to the college, 49mm (B.H.M. 632; Eimer 991); 58th Year of Reign, 1817, small medal in Barton’s metal, by W. Wyon, bust right, rev., radiant star, 24mm (B.H.M. 932; Eimer 1101); George IV, Death of John Rennie, 1821, bronze medal, by W. Bain, head left, rev., inscription, 64mm (B.H.M. 1162; cf. Eimer 1152 var.); Death of George IV, 1830, bronze medal, by Stothard, 62mm (B.H.M. 1363); William IV, Opening of London Bridge, 1831, bronze medal, by B. Wyon, 51mm (B.H.M. 1544), mainly extremely fine (5)
Lot 480
George IV, Viscount Combermere, Peninsular Victories, 1821, bronze medal by B.R. Faulkner, bust left, rev., Victory with scroll listing the battles, 41mm (B.H.M. 1157; Eimer 1155), extremely fine; Victoria, Sir Henry Hardinge and the Treaty of Lahore, 1846, bronze medal, by G.G. Adams, bust left, rev., Victory and warrior, 57.5mm (B.H.M. 2228; Eimer 1404; Pudd. 846), extremely fine (2)
Lot 482
Badges of Office (3): comprising: City of London, engraved badge of office, oval open-work in silver, hallmarked London, 1785, by Aldridge & Green, with arms of the City of London, 81 x 73mm, with pin and chain for suspension, very fine and rare; City of Westminster, magistrate’s badge, in silver-gilt, hallmarked London 1859 and maker IG, the open-work badge with the arms of the Westminster Magistracy and the reverse with a lengthy inscription concerning the permission granted by George III in 1765 for the wearing of such badges, and inscribed to George Parbury Esq., 80 x 58mm, with loop for suspension, very fine and rare; and Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours, bronze-gilt badge by Gass & Co, inscribed to E.J.C. and dated 16 May 1887, 72 x 52mm, with loop and chain, very fine (3). The magistrate George Parbury (1807-1881) was a publisher with a special interest in India, a freemason in India and London, Master of Merchant Taylors Livery Company, Justice of the Peace for Surrey and Middlesex and Deputy Lieutenant for Tower Hamlets.
Lot 483
Victoria, Visit to the City of London, 1837, bronze medal after William Wyon, façade of the Guildhall, rev., legend in five lines, 50mm (B.H.M. 1776, RRRR; Eimer --; Taylor 53), extremely fine and extremely rare. The obverse is struck from the die made by W. Wyon (as B.H.M. 1775) which was subsequently altered when the text of the original exergual inscription was moved to the reverse and replaced with “GUILDHALL LONDON/1837”.
Lot 485
Victoria, Art Union of London, a series of bronze medals of Sir Francis Chantry (1846), William Hogarth, 1848, John Flaxman, 1854, Sir William Chambers, 1857, Sir David Wilkie, 1861, Benjamin West, 1866, William Dyce, 1867, C. R. Leslie, 1870, William Etty, 1872, William Mulready, 1877, Daniel Maclise, 1878, E. H. Baily, 1882, and Sir Gilbert Scott, 1884, 55mm (B.H.M. 2227, 2302, 2530, 2596, 2704, 2862, 2873, 2911, 2938, 3037, 3047, 3115, 3170), extremely fine or better (13)
Lot 488
Victoria, Marriage of the Prince of Wales to Princess Alexandra, 1863, bronze medal by L.C. Wyon, 63mm (B.H.M. 2770; Eimer 1562a); Marriage of the Duke of Albany to Princess Helen of Waldeck, 1882, bronze medal by J.S. and A.B. Wyon, 64mm (B.H.M. 3113; Eimer 1687); Marriage of Princess Beatrice to Prince Henry of Battenberg, 1885, bronze medal by A. Wyon, 64mm (B.H.M. 3183; Eimer 1718), last with edge knock, extremely fine to mint state (3)
Lot 490
Victoria - George V, medals (7), all in their original cases of issue, comprising bronze prize medal of the Crystal Palace Picture Gallery to R.H. Nibbs in 1873, 63mm (with biographical details of recipient); silver-gilt member’s badge of the Kensington International Exhibition, 1862, awarded to T. Scambler Owdon, 77 x 64mm with ribbon and pin suspension; Guildhall Ball, 1887, silver-gilt badge, 26mm; International Inventions Exhibition, 1885, bronze pass for S. Spooner, 25 x 19mm; Edward VII and Queen Alexandra, silver Coronation medal, 1902 (B.H.M. 3772); George V and Queen Mary, bronze plaquette for the Coronation, 1911, by T. Szirmai, 75 x 52mm; and Opening of Lloyd’s new building, 1928, silver medal, by F. Bowcher, 63.5mm, mainly extremely fine (7)
Lot 576
George VI, Coronation, 1937, proof set of 15 silver and bronze coins comprising silver crown to bronze farthing and including maundy set, virtually as struck and unmarked, an excellent set with light toning, in fitted case of issue; together with English shillings, 1939 (12), these all uncirculated and other shillings (6), 1937-44 (36)
Lot 578
English silver and bronze coins: A collection primarily consisting of circulating coins circa 1900-1967 by date but some earlier pieces also included, in silver (about 275), bronze (about 240) and cupro-nickel and nickel-brass (about 140), halfcrowns including 1903, 1904, 1905, 1925, fair to fine, 1905 about fine and clear, florins including 1849, 1900, this extremely fine, 1905, fair, 1927 New Coinage proof, good extremely fine, 1932, shillings including 1905, fair, 1959 Scottish, good extremely fine, other coins including 1927 proof threepence, good extremely fine, others of mixed grades and quality but some, including Victorian issues, extremely fine; together with Greece, 30 drachmai (2), Dynastic Centenary, 1963 and Wedding, 1964 (KM 86, 87), uncirculated (lot)
Lot 313
China, a corner fragment of a hardened bronze mould for casting Wang Mang cash coins of 30-31mm diameter, 60 x 64mm approx., weight 116g, old verdigris and some surface corrosion, fine to very fine; together with a coin of related type (2). Offered with a 1960s ticket suggesting that the mould was acquired in 1946.
Lot 314
China, various National and Provincial silver dollars (12), comprising: Empire, standard dragon type (2), both 1911 (KM Y#31), very fine to good very fine, one with light chopmarks; Republic, Yuan Shih-Kai dollars with portrait left (2), years 3 [1914] and 9 [1920] (KM Y# 329, 329.6), bagmarked, mint state and lightly toned and Sun Yat-Sen dollar [1927] (KM Y# 318a.1), virtually as struck, lightly toned; Chihli, Pei Yang Arsenal 23rd Year, weak in parts, about fine, scarce and Pei Yang 34th Year, very fine; Hupeh, undated [1909-11], good fine; Kiangnan, 1901 (KM Y# 145a.6), light chopmarks, good fine; Szechuan, undated [1901-08] and Republic issue of Year 1 [1912], very fine; Tientsin, Tai-Ching-Ti-Kuo silver coin, undated [1908], very fine; together with half-dollars (4), including issues of Szechuan and Yunnan, smaller silver (2), bronze Republic 200 cash (2) and 20 cash, earlier cash issues (5), mostly very fine and a Mexican 8 reales, Zacatecas, 1882 j.s., this good fine (27)
Lot 344
Constantine X, histamenon, 4.36g (S. 1847), good fine; Roman denarii of L. Marcius Philippus (Cr. 425/1) and Hadrian, rev., Salus, very fine; with Papal bronze jetons (2), fine (5). Provenance: Count Emeryk Hutten Czapski (1897-1979), grandson of the celebrated collector, numismatist and historian of the same name; thence by descent.
Lot 1270
Mathurin Moreau (1822-1912 French), "Spring", bronze, signed to base "Moreau. Math". Height 64 cm (see illustration). CONDITION REPORT: Generally this is in good order throughout and the patination is also good throughout. There are no major defects to report. There are no losses visible. There is a tiny air bubble blow to the foot rim but this is a manufacturing fault. All told an attractive figure.
Lot 1304
A French blue velvet and bronze mounted scent bottle box, circa 1870/80, the interior has two opalescent and bronze mounted scent bottles each with printed images to the lids, 17 cm wide, 10.5 cm high, 9.5 cm deep. CONDITION REPORT: The blue plush velvet material covering the outer case is 60% rubbed and worn, the lid of which is approximately 90% rubbed and worn. The main areas on the front are the upper left hand section, the whole of the right hand side and the majority of the back. The mounts may have once been silver plated but are now down to the bare metal. The interior of the lid is excessively worn and deteriorated. The aperture housing the bottles again is deteriorated, dirty and worn throughout. One bottle is missing its stopper and has a loose but still attached lid. The glass body has a small nibble to the front base edge and small chips on the underside. Its partner bottle has its stopper intact and a good secure hinge. The rear left hand corner base of the bottle is chipped. This is now a rather very tired example of what will have been a once decorative object.
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