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Lot 249
Italy, Giovanna Albizzi Tornabuoni (died 1488), bronze medal, attributed to Niccolò Fiorentino, bust right, rev., the Three Graces named as Chastity, Beauty and Love, 80mm (Hill 1021; Currency of Fame 45), old cast, very fine; together with Roman bronze coin of Maximinus I (AD 235-238) from Tarsus depicting the Three Graces from antiquity, 35mm. (SNG Levante 1096), fine and rare (2). As Pollard mentions in Currency of Fame, the Three Graces symbolised what was good and most civilised in life; they found their origins in antiquity. The closest precise parallel to the reverse of the present medal is a Roman terra-cotta lamp (mentioned by Spencer in StHistArt 21, pp. 202-3) but the general type is found from time to time in Roman coinage - such as the 3rd century coin offered with the medal in this lot. Giovanna married Lorenzo Tornabuoni and died in childbirth in 1488. Her portrait is on the central figure of the Three Graces with her back to the viewer.
Lot 40
A Victorian Oil Lamp, the gilt pierced metal base of chalice form decorated with six panels of acanthus leaves and Green Man masks on a knopped and beaded stem with dome shape pierced six footed base, cut glass reservoir, Messengers Patent Duplex burner, dome shape white glass shade and clear glass flue, registration number 68374, 51cm high without flue
Lot 33
*Ornaments. A large patinated spelter figure, modelled as a harvest boy with scythe over shoulder, mounted on a simulated red marble base with brass plaque stamped 'Moissonneur par Lavergne', 58cm high, together with a pair of spelter figures modelled as a fisherman and female companion, on turned wood bases each with plaque stamped 'Pecheuse', 38cm high, plus a gilt spelter cherub table lamp on a rococo base, 48cm high (4)
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