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Lot 378
France, Louis Philippe, Royal Visit to the Paris Mint, 1833, silvered bronze medal by J.J. Barre, 75mm (BDM I, 129), a later restrike; Execution of Marie Antoinette, 1793, bronze medal by Küchler, 48mm; clichés (2) for the Arrival of the King in Paris, 1789, 86mm and portrait of Napoleon by Andrieu, 140mm; with late restrike bronze Napoleonic medals (2); Vatican, Pius IX, bronze-gilt medal, issued at Easter 1860, 58mm (Lincoln 2288), this in original red morocco case of issue; very fine to extremely fine (7)
Lot 379
France, Louis Philippe, Dedication of the July Column, 1840, bronze medal by Caunois, 75mm (Collignon 1181); J.M. d’Argaud, uniface bronze medal by A. Preault, 1842, 50mm; Italy, Andrea Appiani, bronze medal by Manfredini, 1826, 42mm (Rizzini 155); Antonio Canova, bronze medal by Putinati, 33mm; Great Britain, Joshua Reynolds, Art Union bronze medal by Stothard, 1845, 56mm (BHM 2207), mainly very fine to extremely fine (5)
Lot 383
Germany, Prussia, Frederick III as Elector of Brandenburg, Security of the Netherlands, 1690, bronze medal by R. Faltz, bust right, rev., Athena and the Dutch lion, 42.5mm (Brockmann 334; van Loon III, 481), extremely fine; Frederick the Great, Battle of Prague, 6th May 1757, bronze medal by J.G. Holtzhey, armoured bust right, rev., Victory assaulting Austria, 48mm (Olding 604; Henck 1620), bright metal, extremely fine (2)
Lot 389
*Italy, Sebastiano Renier (c. 1497-1544), Venetian patrician, bronze medal by Maffeo Olivieri, bust right, rev., Venetia standing on water, holding the Venetian flag, 69mm (Hill 489 var.; Arm. I, 125, 4), pierced, the fields chased and edge filed, an extremely fine but late cast The present medal is without the dotted borders as illustrated in Hill. For another example without borders see Habich (Italienischen) pl. 88, 3.
Lot 390
*Italy, Niccolò Orsini (1442-1510), Count of Pitigliano and Nola from 1485, bronze medal after Caradosso, bust left, rev., Orsini on horseback holding baton, accompanied by two foot soldiers, 42.5mm (Hill 667), fine contemporary cast, brown patina Hill noted only two examples of this version of the medal originally by Caradosso with the legends altered later on. Here Orsini is named as commander of the Venetian forces, a position he took up on 30th October 1495.
Lot 391
*Italy, Battista II di Pietro Campofregoso, Doge of Genoa (1478-1483), bronze medal by Battista Elia da Genova, bust right in cap, rev., a trochilus flying into the open jaws of a crocodile (as described in Herodotus ii, 68 where the trochilus bird is said to feed in the crocodile’s mouth without danger to itself), 43mm (Hill 728; Arm. I, 61, 1; Pollard 225 = Kress 201), light marks in fields, a fine contemporary cast with dark patina Ex Astarte XVIII, 2005, lot 213.
Lot 393
*Italy, Constantine the Great, Roman emperor (307-337), bronze medal by Cristoforo di Geremia, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right, rev., Constantine as Pax clasping the hand of the Church as Concordia; signed on ground-line christophorvs hierimiae f, 72.6mm, 232g (Hill 755; Pollard 241 = Kress 211), somewhat rough contemporary cast on a thick heavy flan Ex Astarte VIII, 2001, lot 80.
Lot 395
*Italy, Giovanni Toscani (c. 1450-1478), consistorial advocate, bronze medal by Ermes Flavio de Bonis called Lysippus the Younger, bust left in cap, rev., Neptune in sea-car drawn by two capricorns, 42.5mm (Hill 811; Arm. II, 28, 13; Kress 220), a very fine contemporary cast Ex Astarte VIII, 2001, lot 52.
Lot 396
*Italy, Maximilian I and Maria of Burgundy, bronze medal for their marriage in 1477, attributed to Giovanni Candida, his bust right with long flowing hair, rev., her bust right with crowned monogram behind, 47.6mm (Hill 831; Arm. II, 80, 1; Pollard 259 = Kress 225), pierced, some graffiti, a very fine contemporary cast with brown patina This type of medal was the model for the design of the schauguldiner of Maximilian I issued after 1511, for which see lot 254.
Lot 398
*Italy, Caterina Sforza-Riario (1463-1509), bronze medal (1495), draped bust left, rev., Fortune standing on globe, holding rudder and ball, with date incised across field: mcccc – lxxxxv, 62mm (Hill 1140; Börner 422), later cast, very fine The examples of this medal in Milan and Berlin are similarly dated across the reverse field.
Lot 399
Italy, Cristoforo Moro, Venetian Doge, bronze medal by Antonello della Moneta, 41.55mm (Hill 411), twice pierced, obverse gilt, early cast; Michelangelo, bronze medal by Leoni, 59mm (Attwood 61), pierced, old cast; Cardinal Granvelle, bronze medal by Melone, 42mm (Attwood 985), pierced, early cast, traces of gilding; Alessandro Farnese, bronze medal by Melone, 48 mm (Attwood 992), pierced, very fine early cast (4)
Lot 401
*Italy, Giovanni Battista Castaldo (1493-1562), Count of Piadena and Cassona, bronze medal for victories over the Turks, bust left, rev., Castaldo receiving two citizens, a Turk in the background, 45.2mm (Attwood 105; Pollard 510 = Kress 444; Toderi & Vannel 147), plugged, light field scratches, a very fine early cast Ex Astarte VIII, 2001, lot 59.
Lot 402
*Italy, Jean, Marquis d’Espinay (c. 1531-1591), bronze medal by Anteo Lotello, bust left wearing ruff and cuirass, rev., a lion at the base of a tree entwined with a vine, 46.8mm (Arm. I, 274; Toderi & Vannel 177; Attwood -), a weak area on the reverse coinciding with the high point of the relief on the obverse, a very fine contemporary cast with brown patina
Lot 404
*Italy, Francesco Quirini, Venetian patrician, Procurator of St. Mark’s, soldier and poet, bronze medal by Cavino, draped bust right, rev., Romulus and Remus suckled by the wolf, 36.8mm (Attwood 283; Arm. I, 184, 30; Pollard 452 = Kress 396), very fine early cast, brown patina Ex Bibliothèque d’un Érudit Bibliophile – Pierre Jammes collection, Sotheby’s Paris, 12-13 October 2010, lot 245, part. The Quirini family claimed an unbroken lineage to Romulus, hence also the reverse inscription “perpetual progeny” and the choice of a medal looking like a Roman coin.
Lot 405
*Italy, Marcantonio Passeri (1491-1564), Professor of philosophy and medicine at Padua university, bronze medal by Cavino, bust right, rev., a figure formed of a male and female fused together, 38mm (Attwood 289; Rizzini 274), fine early cast Ex Stonyhurst College collection, Christie’s, 6 March 1990, lot 789. The reverse depicts the perfect human being, with both male and female anatomical parts, as described by Aristophanes in Plato’s Symposium.
Lot 410
*Italy, Cardinal Alessandro Farnese (1520-1589), bronze medal , signed r f, 1575, bust right, rev., fecit anno sal mdlxxv, façade of the Gesù in Rome; signed on either side of the steps, r – f and with an inscription across the front reading alex car farn r e vic, 45mm (cf. Attwood 1001; Toderi & Vannel 2346; Rizzini 377; Arm. -), extremely fine and sharp contemporary cast, slight area of pitting on reverse, with fine brown patina The medal reverse shows the façade of the Gesù, the mother church of the Jesuits, which was completed by the architect Giacomo della Porta in 1575. The church itself was not finished and consecrated until 1584, financed by the Farnese. Authorities have in the past assigned the medal to Gaspare Romanelli but the style and fabric differ from his known works.
Lot 411
*Italy, Queen Artemisia of Caria, struck silver medal, late 16th century, veiled bust right, rev., a depiction of the Mausoleum with inscription ÁÑÔÅÌÉÓÉÁÓ above, 30.8mm, 23.16g (Attwood 1242; Greenhalgh, NC 1972, pl. 28, 1), toned, about extremely fine The reverse is copied from an anonymous drawing in the Uffizi, Florence, which is loosely based on Pliny’s description of the Mausoleum (see Greenhalgh, NC 1972, pl. 27, 2). The single example of the medal recorded by Attwood and Greenhalgh, in the British Museum, is a cast copy in bronze.
Lot 414
*Italy, Pope Gregory XIII (1572-1585), bronze foundation medal for the Jesuit College in Rome (year 10, 1582), by Bernardino Passeri, bust right in act of benediction, rev., the Pope kneels before an apparition of Christ, 58.5mm (Modesti 781; Toderi & Vannel 2355; Arm. III, 134, E), a very fine contemporary cast
Lot 415
*Italy, foundation medal for the church of St. Paul the Apostle in Macerata (1622), in bronze, bust of St Paul with book of gospels, rev., chalice with emblems of Christ’s Passion, inscription around taken from Galatians 6: 17 – for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus, 73mm (Vannel & Toderi 1199), contemporary cast, extremely fine with brown patina
Lot 417
*Italy, Pope Innocent XI Odescalchi, bronze medal by Giuseppe Vismara, bust right wearing cap and stole, rev., Fame blowing trumpet and pointing to inscription in cartouche supported by two cherubs, 67mm (Miselli 228, 242; Alteri 55; Morbio 3844), extremely fine, brown patina with the rim of bare metal Ex M. Hall collection, Baldwin’s, 29 June 2010, lot 1164.
Lot 420
*Italy, Cesare Pagani (1634-1707), Marquis and Senator of Milan, bronze medal by Giuseppe Vismara, bust left wearing fur-lined robe, rev., virtvs roborat, Hercules standing , holding club, looking to the right, 90mm (Morbio 4419; Rizzini 878; La raccolta Mario Scaglia [2007], 59), pierced, traces of old lacquer on reverse, very fine and in high relief Ex M. Hall collection, Baldwin’s, 28 September 2010, lot 2359 (where misattributed to Lorenzo Maria Weber).
Lot 421
*Italy/Great Britain, Sir Henry Newton (1651-1715), bronze medal by Massimiliano Soldani, 1709, draped bust of Newton right, rev., Pallas and Prudence embracing, 87.5mm (Vannel & Toderi 61; MI 367/209), brown patina, good very fine and rare Sir Henry Newton, as the English ambassador in Florence, commissioned Soldani on behalf of the first Duke of Marlborough to make four copies in bronze of antique marble statues in the Tribuna of the Uffizzi Gallery. Of the four, The Medici Venus and The Dancing Faun remain to this day at Blenheim Palace while The Wrestlers and The Knife-Grinder have recently been acquired for the collection of the Prince of Liechtenstein.
Lot 423
Italy, Giovanni Lami (1697-1770), lawyer and academic, bronze medal by Antonio Selvi, rev., Minerva writing with a quill etc., 87mm (Vannel & Toderi 208; Molinari 158), pierced, edge mark, sometime cleaned, very fine; Averaldo de’ Medici, called Bicci, bronze medal by Selvi, rev., a goose and a dog, 85mm (Vannel & Toderi 246), fine old cast (2) Second medal ex Sir Timothy Clifford collection, Spink/Christie’s, 21 May 1996, lot 323.
Lot 425
Italy, Faustina Bordoni (1693-1781), celebrated mezzo-soprano, pair of bronze medals by J. Broccetti, both 1723, bust right, rev., Polyhymnia seated on a pile of musical instruments, 84.5mm (Vannel & Toderi 107) and Bordoni as a Siren singing to Ulysses on his ship, 86.2mm (Vannel & Toderi 108), very fine casts but without patination (2) Both medals ex Paul Niggl collection (Niggl 379 and 380) and formerly in the Andorfer and Epstein collection (Musica in Nummis 355 and 356).
Lot 427
*Netherlands, Maximilian II as King of Hungary (1562-1564), uniface bronze medal by Jonghelinck in the style of Trezzo, conjoined busts of Maximilian II and Maria of Spain left; rex bohm across field, 40mm (Smolderen pl. 89, F9; Lanna 730; Habich [Italienischen] pl. 91, 8), some obverse graffiti, a very fine contemporary cast
Lot 432
*Italy, The Crucifixion, bronze-gilt plaquette by Moderno, Christ crucified between the two robbers; below are soldiers and, on the left, St. John gazing upwards; below him, the fainting Virgin supported by two women while Mary Magdalen clasps the base of the cross, 113 x 77mm (Molinier 171; Lewis 2; Scaglia V12, variant 1, A1, this piece; Warren, Ashmolean Plaquettes [2014], 299), tiny hole in bottom left corner, fields tooled, a very fine early cast Ex Astarte XVIII, 2005, lot 341.
Lot 436
Italy, St John the Evangelist, bronze plaquette with the saint depicted with the head of an eagle and holding a book of gospels, 40mm, pierced, very fine; and two bronze religious plaquettes after Byzantine period icons, one of the Madonna and Child, 47 x 46mm, the other of the Madonna with SS Nicholas and Michael, 47 x 42mm, one pierced, very fine (3)
Lot 437
*Northern Italy, The Adoration of the Shepherds and The Adoration of the Magi, a pair of gilt-bronze reliefs after late medieval ivories (possibly formerly a diptych), each scene depicted beneath three Gothic arches, the first with the Virgin and Child on a bed, 77.5 x 61mm, the second with the infant Christ standing on the lap of the Virgin, 76.1 x 61mm, very fine (2) Ex Astarte XIII, 2003, lot 1943.
Lot 73
Greek coins (39), tetradrachms (5) of Antiochos VIII, Vardanes I, Azes, Ptolemy II and Ptolemy XII; Lucania, Velia, didrachm; Thessalian League, double victoriati (7); various drachms (6), including fourrée of Sikyon; other miscellaneous silver (12) and bronze issues (8); together with various Roman silver and copper issues (14), mainly fair to fine (53)
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