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Lot 714
*A French Infantry Officer's dress sword, c.1860, the diamond-shaped tapering blade on giltmetal hilt, the scrolling guard decorated with a classical chariot scene beside a helmeted bust quillon, the bow knuckle guard of acanthus design with beast terminal, mother-of-pearl mounted grip surrounded by foliate motifs, terminating in lion mask pommel, giltmetal mounted brown leather scabbard with velvet frog and cloth belt, 36in (92cms) overall.
Lot 816
An early 20th Century plaster bust of King Edward VII, painted black, 15 3/4in. (40cms) high; together with a parcel gilt plaster plaque of Handel, in beadwork and moulded frame, 9 x 10 1/4in. (23 x 26cms). (2) PROVENANCE Bust purchased through Colin Gee Antiques, Gloucestershire; plaque purchased from Anno Domini Antiques, London, 1/6/87.
Lot 100
Great Britain, George I, Princess Clementina, Escape from Innsbruck, 1719, silver medal by Otto Hamerani, her bust left, rev., Clementina travelling at speed towards Rome, 48mm (MI 444/49; Eimer 484), some edge knocks, toned, good very fine; Marriage of James (III) to Clementina, 1719, bronze medal, rev., Venus and Hercules, 41mm (MI 445/51; Eimer 486); Birth of the Young Pretender, 1720, bronze medal, rev., Providentia, 41mm (MI 452/60; Eimer 488), good very fine [Clifford lots 505 and 507] (3)
Lot 111
*Scotland, Mary Queen of Scots (1542-67), uniface bronze medal, undated, by Jacopo Primavera (later 16th century, working in France), maria stovvar regi scot angli, bust of Mary right wearing cap and veil, signed behind bust, ia primave, 66.5mm (Jones I, 159; MI 118/52; Cochran Patrick 14/17 and pl. 1, 12; Mazerolle 300), very fine old cast with brown patina, very rare. Ex Spink, 26 March 2008, lot 2. For a portrait testoon of Mary Queen of Scots see lot 715.
Lot 121
Germany, George the Bearded, Duke of Saxony (1500-39), lead medal by Christoph Weiditz, facing bust, rev., coat of arms, 43mm (Habich 1845), with corrosion; Bohemian silver-gilt medals (2) of the Adoration of the Shepherds/Adoration of the Magi, dated 1549 (Katz 354), and the Creation of Eve/the Last Supper, 40 mm (Katz 401), both with suspension loops, about very fine; and lead medal dated 1546, the Last Supper, rev., the Crucifixion, 53mm (Katz 344), damaged [Clifford lots 526, 535, 536 and 538] (4)
Lot 123
*Low Countries, Antoine Perrenot, Archbishop Granvelle, silvered bronze medal by J. Jonghelinck, 1561, bust right in biretta and cape, rev., Aeneas attempting to steer his ship through a tempest with Neptune intervening to calm the waters, 55.8mm (van Loon I, 58, 1; Smolderen 32; Arm. II, 255, 38), very fine early cast [ex Clifford collection]
Lot 124
*Poland, John Laski (1499-1560), Polish protestant reformer, uniface lead medal, bust right in cap and gown, aged 56 and dated 1557, in integral frame, 79mm (for a similar example see Meister & Sonntag, Nov. 2011, 503), pierced, fine early cast [Clifford lot 533]. Laski, a friend of Erasmus and Zwingli, came to England in the reign of Edward VI and set up a Congregation for European Protestants in London in 1550. He was obliged to leave in Mary’s reign, eventually returning to Poland where he was involved in the Calvinist Reformation.
Lot 125
*Poland, John III Sobieski, Alliance of Poland, Austria, Russia and Venice against the Turks, 1684, silver medal by J. Hohn, bust of Sobieski right within crowned palm branches and with four concentric lines of legends around, rev., three imperial Eagles and the Lion of Venice in clouds over rocks with four distant cities; lettered and dated edge, 56mm (HCz. 2480 – R4; Voltolina 1037), some marks and edge knocks, a tiny pin prick above the crown on the obverse, otherwise very fine, toned and very rare
![*Southern Region, Regni & Atrebates, Verica (c. AD 10-40), silver unit, standing figure holding lituus [and bunch of grapes],](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/b8834ed4-7695-4987-82ae-a612016043a6/a7ce345a-c4ee-4719-c9cd-4afb423c7533/468x382.jpg)
Lot 145
*Southern Region, Regni & Atrebates, Verica (c. AD 10-40), silver unit, standing figure holding lituus [and bunch of grapes], com to left; mif to right, rev., bust of Tiberius right; veri behind, 1.31g (ABC 1250; BMC 1421-49; S. 136), toned, very fine. Ex Spink, private purchase, 10 February 2005.
Lot 20
*Antonio di Puccio called Pisanello (c. 1395-1455), Francesco Sforza, condottiere and later 4th Duke of Milan, bronze medal, armoured bust left wearing tall hat (berretta alla capitanesca), rev., the head of a horse, three books and a sword, 86.5mm (Hill 23; Arm. I, 88, 22; Kress 5 = Pollard 5; Pollard Bargello 6 = Vannel & Toderi 14; Syson, Pisanello [2001] fig. 3.38), pierced, a very fine early cast with traces of black varnish over a brown patina [Clifford lot 3] Ex Leone Leonello, Pascara; subsequently with P & P Santamaria, Rome. Exhibited at Medals of the Renaissance, Hunterian Museum, Glasgow, 1990, catalogue J.D. Bateson, pp.12-13, 3. The medal bears Francesco’s titles of Visconti and Lord of Cremona acquired on his marriage to Bianca Maria Visconti in 1441. The reverse design points to Francesco as a man of arms and letters. Syson has commented also on the classical connection here in that the horse may be associated with Alexander the Great’s famous mount Bucephalus as depicted on ancient coins of the Syrian king Seleucus I.
Lot 21
*Matteo de’ Pasti (c. 1420-67/8), Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta, Lord of Rimini (1417-68), bronze medal, bust left, rev., Fortitude seated facing in a meadow holding a broken column, her seat formed of the foreparts of two elephants; below, mdccclvi, 81.5mm (Hill 180; Arm. I, 20, 11; Pollard, Bargello 43 = Vannel & Toderi 69), small piercing, very fine contemporary cast with dark patina Ex Spink, 24 January 2008, lot 101.
Lot 217
*Byzantine, Zoe and Theodora (21 April – 12 June 1042), clipped gold histamenon, facing bust of the Virgin holding nimbate head of Christ before her rev., facing crowned busts of Zoe and Theodora flanking a labarum, 1.07g (cf. DO p. 732, 1 = Grierson 911 = Whiting 309-10; ANS 977.158.932; Hunt collection, Sotheby’s New York, 1990, 765, apparently same dies; S. 1827), comprising the central part only of the coin which was clipped presumably in antiquity to be fitted into jewellery; apart from the clipping and a few minor marks, extremely fine and extremely rare. Zoe (c. 978-1050) was one of the most remarkable of Byzantine empresses. She ruled for seven and a half weeks with her sister Theodora by virtue of their status as porphyrogenitai (literally, “born into the purple”) of the Macedonian dynasty founded by Basil I. As a 23 year old imperial princess she was selected by her uncle Basil II to marry the Holy Roman emperor Otto III but the marriage never took place as Otto died unexpectedly, shortly before she arrived in Italy in 1002. She was married three times, to Romanus III (1028-34), Michael IV (1034-41) and finally to Constantine IX (1042-1050) and was empress/regent for her adoptive son Michael V (1041-42). She is depicted in a famous mosaic in Hagia Sophia with her husband Constantine IX flanking Christ Pantocrator and she was evidently known for her great beauty. Her relationship with her younger sister Theodora was strained and her marriage to Constantine IX finally allowed her to stand back from the administration of matters of state. This type of coin was unknown until 1953 when a small hoard was discovered containing approximately eight examples (see Grierson p. 199 and Sotheby’s catalogue of the Hunt collection of Byzantine coins, 5 December 1990, lot 765). The present coin, albeit heavily clipped, is possibly the only surviving coin of their joint reign that has survived apart from the few coins in the 1953 hoard.
Lot 22
*Matteo de’ Pasti (c. 1420-67/8), Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta, Lord of Rimini (1417-68), bronze medal, bust left, rev., the castle of Rimini, 80mm (Hill 185; Arm. I, 20, 12; Pollard, Bargello 48 = Vannel & Toderi 83), probably an excavation piece, traces of creta on edge, a very fine contemporary cast with brown patina. Ex Morton & Eden 30, 29 November 2007, lot 693.
Lot 220
Byzantine, Andronicus II and Michael IX (1295-1320), hyperpyron, bust of the Virgin within city walls with four groups of towers; sigla C/? and K/N, rev., Christ blessing the co-emperors, 3.62g (S. 2396; Grierson group IIb; PCPC sigla 191; Ashmolean 754-58 var.), clipped, flan crack, extremely fine
Lot 23
Matteo de’ Pasti, Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta, lead medal, bust left, rev., the castle of Rimini, 81mm (Hill 184), gilt, old cast, worn and somewhat battered; Isotta degli Atti, bronze medal, bust right, rev., the Malatesta elephant, 86.7mm (cf. Hill 187/167), late cast; and small bronze medal, bust right, rev., closed book, 40mm (Hill 189), late cast [includes Clifford lots 13 and 16] (3)
Lot 24
*Matteo de’ Pasti (c. 1420-67/8), Isotta degli Atti, mistress of Sigismondo, bronze medal, bust right, rev., the Malatesta elephant, 82.5mm (Hill 187; Arm. I, 21, 19), early cast with extensive tooling and chasing, old collector’s number inked on reverse. Ex Morton & Eden 9, 25 May 2004, lot 241.
Lot 25
Pier Jacopo di Alari Bonacolsi, called Antico, Gianfrancesco Gonzaga (1443-96), bronze medal, bust left, rev, Mars, Fortune and Minerva, 38.8mm (Hill 206; Kress 71bis = Pollard 111), early cast; Antonia del Balzo, his wife, bronze medal, bust right, rev., Hope standing on a prow drawn by two Pegasi, alluding to Christian Hope, 40mm (Hill 212; Kress 72 = Pollard 112), flaws on obverse, an early cast [Clifford lots 19 and 20] (2)
Lot 26
Attributed to Girolamo Santacroce, Andrea Caraffa, as Count of Santa Severina (1496) and later Viceroy of Naples (died 1526), bronze medal, bust left wearing helmet, rev., Prudence seated, 37.5mm (Hill 349; Kress 109 = Pollard 153), pierced, bare metal, fine contemporary cast; after Caradosso, Niccolò Orsini (1442-1510), Count of Pitigliano and Nola, bronze-gilt medal, bust left, rev., Orsini on horseback, 42.5mm (Hill 667), thrice pierced, gilding worn, a contemporary cast [Clifford lots 22 and 42] (2). The medal of Orsini is a rare version of the original by Caradosso with the inscriptions altered to name the sitter as Commander of the Venetian forces. Orsini was appointed as such on 30 October 1495 by Doge Agostino Barbarigo.
Lot 27
*Attributed to Cristoforo Foppa called Caradosso (c. 1452-1526/27), Giangiacomo Trivulzio (1441-1518), Marshall of France from 1499, square bronze medal, 1499, laureate bust left, rev., dated 1499 and with eight line legend recording the capture of Alessandria, the expulsion of Ludovico il Moro and his capture at Novara, 46mm x 46.3mm (Hill 655; Kress 192 = Pollard 217; Pollard Bargello 139 = Vannel & Toderi 407), a very fine contemporary cast with dark patina [ex Clifford collection]. Ex Morton & Eden 17, 13 December 2005, lot 636 and Stack collection, Morton & Eden 41, 9 December 2009, lot 83.
Lot 29
*Cristoforo di Geremia, Pietro Barbò, Pope Paul II (1464-71), uniface oval bronze medal, bust right wearing cope and large morse, 41.3mm x 34.6mm (Hill 773 obverse), some knocks but an extremely fine contemporary cast with brown patina [Clifford lot 54]. Versions of this medal are known cast in cavo (as Pollard, Bargello, 166a).
Lot 31
Ermes Flavio de Bonis called Lysippus the Younger (fl. 1470-84), Raffaello Riario (1460-1521), Cardinal of S. Giorgio, bronze medal dated 1478, bust right, rev., St George killing the dragon, 35.4mm (Hill 791; Pfisterer A.22), pierced, edge flattened in two places, early cast [Clifford lot 61]
Lot 32
*Ermes Flavio de Bonis called Lysippus the Younger (fl. 1470-84), Raffaello Maffei da Volterra, as Apostolic scriptor (1466-76), bust left in cap and gown, rev., Maffei addressing an old woman, 82.5mm (Hill 797; Arm. II, 52, 24; Pfisterer A.2), very fine old cast taken from a pierced example [Clifford 62]. In a document of 1506 Maffei mentioned that the medallist known as Lysippus the Younger was a nephew of the Mantuan medallist Cristoforo di Geremia. More recently Lysippus the Younger has been identified as Ermes Flavio de Bonis, a medallist in Rome who mainly made portrait medals of his circle of friends within the Papal curia. A very similar example to the present medal was in the Gaines collection sold in these rooms, 8 December 2005, lot 9.
Lot 35
Attributed to Donato Bramante, Giuliano della Rovere, Pope Julius II (1503-13), bronze foundation medal for St. Peter’s, bust right, rev., view of St. Peter’s according to Bramante’s design, 55.5mm (cf. Hill 660), electrotype copy by Robert Ready, very fine; Venetian School, 16th century, Marcantonio Trevisan, Doge, 1553-54, bronze medal on his death, 62.5mm (Arm. II, 224, 1; Kress 504 = Pollard 578), electrotype copy, very fine [includes Clifford lot 41] (2)
Lot 355
Russia, Elizabeth I, rouble, 1755, St Petersburg, im (Bit. 275; Diakov 2), faults right of bust, good fine; Alexander I, Visit to England 1814, bronze medal, by T. Webb for Edward Thomason, laureate bust right, five-line inscription within wreath (Diakov 384; BHM 844; Eimer 1050), several scuffs and bruises, fine and rare (2)
Lot 357
*Eastern Slavic (second half of the 11th century), penny imitating an English Arm and Sceptre issue of Harthacnut, ASCOT, bust left holding lis headed sceptre, rev., blundered legend, long cross voided, triangle with pellet in each angle alternately terminating in annulet and trefoil of pellets, 0.67g, crinkled, very fine and apparently unpublished
Lot 37
*Attributed to Niccolò Spinelli called Fiorentino, Giovanni Antonio dei Guidi (c. 1459-1501), Count of Urbecche and Modigliana, lead medal, bust left, rev., an eagle displayed on a tree to which is attached the arms of Guidi of Romagna, 91mm (Hill 978; Pollard Bargello 239 = Vannel & Toderi 335), very fine early cast with loop for suspension, old edge knocks [Clifford lot 74]
Lot 38
*Jacopo da Trezzo (c. 1514-89), Mary Tudor, Queen of England (1553-58), silver medal, bust left wearing elaborately embroidered gown, a brooch with pendant pearl at her breast and a cap adorned with jewels; signed below, iac trez, rev., cecis visvs timidis qvies, figure of Peace seated on throne, setting fire to a pile of arms laid before her; below the throne are a cube with two clasped hands on one of its sides and a pair of scales (representing Stability, Unity and Justice); to the left are suppliant figures beset by a storm; to the right are other figures and a round temple (representing the Catholic Church) 64.7mm (Attwood 80; MI I, 72, 20; Arm I, 241, 3; Pollard Bargello 725 = Vannel & Toderi 469; Middeldorf & Steibral pl. 72), the fields chased, an extremely fine early cast with grey toning [ex Clifford collection]. Ex Robert O’Connor, George Street, London, 1960s. Known as the State of Britain medal this was Trezzo’s finest medallic work and Mary’s image isvery close to the portrait painting of the queen by Antonis Mors made around the same time as the medal, in 1554. The Latin reverse inscription translates as “sight to the blind, tranquillity to the fearful”. Examples are most commonly found in bronze but silver specimens exist, most notably those of the Bargello, Florence and the ex Chigi piece recorded by Middeldorf & Steibral. A gold specimen is in the British Museum and another formed part of the Stack collection, sold in these rooms, 9 December 2009, lot 136.
Lot 383
*Charles I, Tower mint, unite, group b, m.m. castle on obverse, castle over negro’s head on reverse, second bust (type 2a) left, reads mag bri fr et hi, rev., square-topped crowned shield, 9.17g (SCBI Brooker 37, from different dies; N. 2148; S. 2687), from a worn and somewhat flawed obverse die, has been cleaned, generally very fine
Lot 384
*Charles I, Tower mint, unite, group d, m.m. anchor (with flukes to left on obverse), bust 6 left, with crown of class II, reads ma br fr et hi, rev., oval crowned shield with crowned c r at sides, 9.04g (cf SCBI Brooker 100, from different dies and anchor with flukes to right; N. 2148; S. 2687), cleaned, very fine or rather better. Apparently rare with the anchor mintmark having flukes to the left. A comparable specimen from different dies is in the British Museum collection.
Lot 385
*Charles II, two-guineas, 1664, first bust, elephant below (S. 3334), obverse good fine and clear, reverse very fine. The first year of issue of two-guinea pieces, the name ‘guinea’ being derived from the place of origin of bullion; the elephant and elephant and castle marks (see following two lots) represent the badge of the Africa Company. Ex Spink auction, 26 June 2008, lot 928.
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