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Lot 107
Great Britain, George IV, Coronation, 1821, official bronze medal, by Pistrucci, 35mm (BHM 1070; Eimer 1146), in (damaged) red case of issue, extremely fine; Victoria, Golden Jubilee, 1887, official bronze medal, by Boehm, 77mm, in case of issue, extremely fine; Charles I, Return to London, 1633, cast silver medal, 43mm (MI 267/64; Eimer 124), edge damage, almost fine; together with 50th Anniversary of the Star Newspaper, in silver-gilt, cased and a modern copy of the Embarkation at Scheveningen 1660, in silver (5)
Lot 109
Great Britain, Victoria, The Great Exhibition, 1851, bronze prize medal by W. and L.C. Wyon, conjoined busts of Victoria and Albert, rev., allegorical scene of Britannia conferring wreath on Industria, edge named to James Coulson and Co, Class XIV, 77mm (BHM 2462; Eimer 1456), slight marks, extremely fine, in contemporary fitted case
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 119
France, Napoleon I, bronze medal for the Baptism of the King of Rome, 1811, 67mm (Bramsen 1125), some knocks, very fine; together with restrike bronze medal for coronation festivities (1804), 67mm (cf. Bramsen 358); silver prize medal of the Société d’Agriculture du Puy-de-Dôme, unnamed, 68mm, argent on edge; gilt metal medal of the artists G. Geefs and G. Wappers, 64mm; large bronze medal of François Guizot, French statesman and historian, by J.J. Feuchère, 100mm, cuivre on edge (BDM II, 89); and Monneron token of Jean-Jacques Rousseau by Dumarest, 35mm, very fine to extremely fine [includes Clifford lots 491, 494 and 495] (6)
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
Lot 14
*Italian 16th century style, Martyrdom of a Saint, silver plaquette by Herman Ratzersdorfer of Vienna (1815-91), the scene taking place before a crowd of soldiers with buildings in the background, 94.4mm x 53mm (see Lewis, D. and T. Eden, A “Renaissance” plaquette design from nineteenth-century Vienna, The Medal 60, 2012; Molinier 625; Bange 732; Kress 382), extremely fine Another example in silver-gilt was sold in these rooms, 5 June 2013, lot 632. Plaquettes such as these were accepted as authentic early 16th century pieces and praised for their style and composition until two examples appeared with the monogram of Ratzersdorfer stamped into their metal, prompting a reappraisal of their authenticity.
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 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 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 30
Cristoforo di Geremia, Pietro Barbò, Pope Paul II (1464-71), a group of four bronze medals, with revs., SS. Peter and Paul with flock of sheep, 38mm (Hill 760), the Pope receiving supplicants, 39mm (Hill 766), this pierced and gilt; oval, with the Barbò shield of arms, 42mm x 35mm (Hill 771); and elevation of the Palazzo Venezia, Rome, dated 1465, 33mm (Hill 783), early or contemporary casts [Clifford lots 51, 53, 55 and 56] (4). The last is the foundation medal for the Palazzo Venezia completed in 1465.
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 34
*Roman School (1513), Giuliano II de’ Medici (1479-1516), bronze-gilt medal issued for the citizenship of Rome conferred on him in 1513, head left, rev., Roma seated left holding winged Victory, 32.7mm (Hill 889; Kress 241 = Pollard 277), thrice pierced possibly for sewing onto a cap, a fine contemporary cast [Clifford lot 67]
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 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 370
Miscellaneous: Britain, Kingdom of Northumbria, blundered AE stycas (2), George I threepence, 1717; Roman, denarii (2), of Marcus Aurelius, rev., Concordia and of Maximinus I, rev., Fides, very fine, with Nero and Poppaea, Alexandrian tetradrachm, about fine; World Coins: Cyprus, quarter-piastre, 1887, Japan, 50 sen, Meiji 43, and Ayyubids of the Yemen, dirham, 625h, Sana, generally very fine; and Medals: U.S.A., Hudson Fulton Commemorative, 1909, in bronze, by Emil Fuchs for the American Numismatic Society, 101mm, good very fine; various bronze sporting prize medals (25), extremely fine; Germany, Third Reich, War Merit Cross Second Class, bronze medal and iron Wound Medal, very fine, together with propaganda pictures (15) (lot)
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 39
Jacopo da Trezzo, Mary Tudor, uniface cast of the reverse of the previous medal, Peace on throne setting fire to arms etc., 64mm (cf. Attwood 80), pierced, very fine old cast, reverse with intaglio image [Clifford lot 127]; together with uniface lead medal of Isabella Capua by Trezzo, 73mm (Attwood 65), pierced, traces of gilding, fine old cast [Clifford lot 130] and uniface bronze reverse of Trezzo’s medal of Gianello della Torre showing the Fountain of Knowledge, 75mm (cf. Attwood 91), pierced, old cast; and bronzed lead uniface medal of Cardinal Alessandro Farnese (1556), by Pastorino, 68mm (Attwood 565), late cast, extremely fine [includes Clifford lots 127, 130 and 390] (4)
Lot 40
*Tegniza of Cremona, Marco Girolamo Vida (1485-1566), Bishop of Alba from 1533, bronze medal, bearded and tonsured bust right, rev., Pegasus at the spring of Hippocrene, 38.2mm (Attwood 132 = Cyril Humphris, European Medallions, 58; Arm. II, 161, 17), very fine contemporary cast with dark patina [Clifford lot 170]. Formerly attributed to Giovanni Battista Caselli, Attwood noticed its similarity to another version of this medal, an example of which, in the Oppenheimer collection, bore the signature tegniza cremon (Attwood 133). The Humphris example of the present medal is now in the British Museum.
Lot 41
*Milanese School (mid-16th century), Maria of Aragon, wife of Alfonso II of Aragon (d. 1568), uniface bronze medal, her bust right with coronet behind, 48.2mm (Attwood 142; Arm. II, 163, 2; Pollard Bargello 810 = Vannel & Toderi 1450), very fine early cast with integral rope border and with four bronze loops fitted to the reverse for attaching to a cap [Clifford lot 157]. Ex Sotheby’s, 27 April 1977, lot 397. For a very similar example see Gaines collection part II, sold in these rooms, 8 December 2005, lot 17.
Lot 42
Milanese School, Carlo Borromeo, Cardinal and Archbishop of Milan, gilt-bronze medal, bust left, rev., Agnus Dei, 48mm (Attwood 199), mount removed, some wear to gilding [Clifford lot 160]; together with bronze uniface reverse of a medal of Domenico Grimani with Theology taking the hand of Philosophy, 50mm (cf. Hill 863), very fine old cast; and gilt-bronze medal of Pope Sixtus V, by Michele Balla, rev., obelisk in the Piazza del Popolo, 44mm (Arm. I, 294; Pollard Bargello II, 669 = Vannel & Toderi 1299), pierced, fine [Clifford lot 117] (3). The medal of Borromeo includes the letter B before the bust, indicating that it was made between his beatification in 1601 and his canonization in 1610 (whereupon an S replaced the B).
Lot 43
Venetian School (1560s), Tommaso Rangone (149-1577), of Ravenna, Professor of Philosophy and Astronomy, bronze medal, bust right, rev., Jupiter as an eagle brings the infant Hercules to Juno’s breasts while she reclines in a starry sky, 38mm (Attwood 236; Arm. II, 196, 20; Kress 419b = Vannel & Toderi 551-54), fine old cast [Clifford lot 136]
Lot 44
*Venetian School (mid-16th century), Beatrice Roverella Rangoni, wife of Ercole Rangoni of Venice, bronze medal of square format, bust three-quarters left, rev., three-masted ship without sails in a stormy sea, 57 x 61mm (Attwood 419; Arm. II, 196, 17; Kress 499 = Pollard 576), very fine old cast with chasing to the reverse [Clifford lot 167]
Lot 45
*Gian Antonio Signoretti (d. 1602), Giulia Pratonieri, uniface lead medal, three-quarter length bust facing right set on a voluted plinth, wearing elaborate helmet and drapery, two spears tucked under her left arm; signed on volute below her right arm, s, 68mm (Attwood 653; Arm. I, 213, 3; Clifford 154), pierced, some marks but an extremely fine contemporary cast [ex Clifford collection]. Ex Michael Hall collection, Baldwin’s, 4 May 2010, lot 168. Pollard mentions that aside from the Kress example (Pollard 522 = Kress 453, in a lead alloy) only two specimens of this medal are recorded, being those in Berlin (Bange 261, a later cast in bronze) and the Bargello (Vannel & Toderi 630, also in bronze). To these should be added the damaged gilt-lead specimen in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Attwood 653a) and the lead specimen formerly in the Clifford collection (1996 catalogue, lot 154). As noted in Currency of Fame the finest examples of these uniface medals of the Emilian school are cast on wafer-thin lead flans, as is the case with the present medal and the piece formerly owned by Clifford. Signoretti’s fine mannerist style along with that of other members of the Emilian school of medallists such as Ruspagiari and Bombarda has been connected to the art of the painter Lelio Orsi of Novellara (c. 1511-87) who had an involvement with the mint of Reggio. Signoretti himself wrote two letters to Alfonso Gonzaga, Count of Novellara in December 1569 describing the coins to be struck there under Orsi’s supervision.
Lot 46
*Giambattista Cambi called Bombarda (d. c.1582), Giovanni Battista Pigna, doctor, historian and poet (1503-75), uniface bronze medal, bust left wearing shirt and gown, 64mm (Attwood 668; Arm. II, 195, 11; Brettauer 884), pierced, some marks, a fine contemporary cast, brown patina [Clifford lot 156]
Lot 47
*The Master F.V., Duarte, 5th Duke of Guimaraes (1541-76) and nephew of King John III of Portugal, bronze-gilt medal, half-length portrait left in armour, holding baton and helmet; signed below right arm, f.v., rev., Athena standing left, holding spear, olive branch and shield (by Bombarda), 68mm (Arm. III, 99, A; Lamas 2 (an electrotype); cf. Attwood 655), pierced, an old cast with later incised inscriptions [Clifford lot 132]. Ex Jacques Schulman, Amsterdam, Auction 161, 31 October 1927, lot 19. The reverse is by the Emilian artist Bombarda (as Arm. III, 95, C) and does not belong to the obverse. Nevertheless, as a mule, Armand cited an example in the Royal Coin Cabinet in Parma so the combination of obverse and reverse is known. However, the present medal has been intriguingly adapted at a later date so as to pretend to depict King Edward V of England (the elder of the two “Princes in the Tower”) who reigned for two months in 1483 between the death of his father Edward IV and the crowning of his uncle Richard III. The baton held by the sitter is incised r.a. regnavit menses ii (“He reigned for two months as King of England”), the bust itself is incised aet xiii (“aged 13”, Edward V’s age when king) and on the helmet there is the date ann. 1483. With renewed interest in the English monarchy following the Restoration and the discovery of children’s bones in the Tower of London in 1674 which were assumed to be those of the princes (and are buried in Westminster Abbey) it is tempting to believe that someone at that time (or of course later) created this medal out of one with a very appropriate obverse inscription and with a portrait of a young prince - but as the portrait shows, not young enough!
Lot 48
Bolognese School (1530s), Gregorio Magalotti, Bishop of Lipari from 1532 and of Chiusi from 1534, died 1537, bronze medal, bust right, rev., figure of Fortune standing on a globe, holding up a sail, 78mm (Attwood 713; Arm. III, 229, 1), old cast taken from a pierced example, dark patina [Clifford lot 32]
Lot 49
*Benvenuto Cellini (1500-71), François I of France (1515-47), bronze medal, laureate bust left with sceptre tipped with fleur-de-lis before, rev., horseman galloping right wielding club and riding over fallen female figure; below exergual line, benvenv.f, 41mm (Attwood 768; Arm. I, 147, 3; Pollard Bargello 341 = Vannel & Toderi 663), very fine early cast, some pitting, with brown patina [Clifford lot 79]. The original medal was struck from dies by Cellini. The occasion for its production was probably Cellini’s first visit to Paris in 1537 and there is mention in an inventory of the artist’s goods made in the following year of “una testa del Re de Francia de piombo” which may refer to a trial striking of the medal in lead. In fact, the Fitzwilliam Museum possess a lead striking of the obverse (Attwood 769) which shows a die crack behind the head of the king which is reproduced on the present cast medal as well as on other examples. Perhaps the dies broke at an early stage – which would explain why most surviving examples of the medal are casts. The reverse represents Fortune as the fallen female figure, her rudder and globe beside her, defeated by Virtue as the horseman, a design borrowed from Roman coinage.
Lot 50
*Domenico Poggini (1520-90), Domenico Fontana (1543-1607), architect in Rome, bronze medal, 1589, bust right, rev., four obelisks each surmounted by a cross, 40mm. (Attwood 825; Arm. II, 63, 6; Pollard Bargello 840 = Vannel & Toderi 811), pierced, very fine contemporary striking [Clifford lot 161]. The four obelisks re-erected by Fontana on the instructions of Pope Sixtus V are the ones in front of St. Peter’s (1586), Sta. Maria Maggiore (1587), S. Giovanni in Laterano (1588) and in the Piazza del Popolo (1589).
Lot 51
*The Master P.P.R. (formerly Pietro Paulo Galeotti), Francesco Guereri de’ Fermi, bronze medal, cuirassed bust left; signed behind truncation, p.p.r., rev., standing figures of War and Peace; et belli et pacis amator, 50 mm (Attwood 840; Arm. I, 230, 12), somewhat rubbed but a very fine contemporary cast with brown patina [Clifford lot 163]. Traditionally the medals signed p.p.r. were given to Pietro Paolo Galeotti who worked in the mint at Florence and was responsible for a series of struck medals of Cosimo I de’ Medici. But none of the cast medals signed p.p.r. depict Florentines and they are of infinitely finer style and composition to the struck medals. They are the work of another artist whose identity has yet to be revealed. According to Attwood nothing is known of the sitter although he may be the same individual portrayed on a small medal by Leone Leoni (Attwood 4). The reverse design of the present medal may be after Battista Franco, the Venetian mannerist painter and print-maker.
Lot 52
The Master P.P.R., Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo, Milanese painter and celebrated writer on art (1538-1600), uniface bronze medal, 1562, bare head right aged 23, 45mm (cf. Arm. I, 230, 15; Attwood -), very fine old cast taken from a pierced example [Clifford lot 147]. See footnote to previous lot. Lomazzo was the author of the important Trattato dell’ Arte della Pittura, Scultura et Architettura (1584).
Lot 53
*Giovanni Melone (fl. 1570s), Antoine Perrenot, Cardinal Granvelle (1516-86), bronze medal, bust left wearing hooded cassock; trace of signature on truncation, rev., Aeneas’s ship in stormy waters, 42mm (Attwood 987; Kress 635 = Pollard 432), suspension loop damaged, fine contemporary cast with brown patina [Clifford lot 135]
Lot 54
*Antonio Abondio (1538-91), Caterina Riva, uniface bronze medal, half-length figure right with pearl necklace and arm-garter, her right breast exposed where she is adjusting her gown, holding a small lap-dog in her right hand, 67.4mm (Attwood 1145; Arm. I, 272, 25; Pollard 535 = Kress 467; Jones, Art of the Medal, fig. 142), extremely fine early cast, the plain reverse with traces of original sprues [ex Clifford collection]. Ex Michael Hall collection, Baldwin’s, 4 May 2010, lot 181.
Lot 56
Italian Renaissance bronze medals (6) comprising Alessandro de’ Medici by Domenico de’ Vetri, 34mm (Attwood 771), Marco Montova Benavides and his father Giovanni Pietro Mantova Benavides by Cavino, 36mm (cf. Attwood 266 note), Didius Julianus (Roman emperor) by Cavino, 37mm (Lawrence 67), Guido Rangoni by Niccolò Cavallerino, 30mm (Attwood 458), Marco Mantova Benavides by Martino da Bergamo, 30mm (Attwood 317) and anonymous bronze medal of Pescennius Niger (?), 47mm., old casts, mainly very fine [includes Clifford lots 75, 139, 146, 168, 169] (6)
Lot 58
*Gaspare Mola (1567-1640), Cosimo II de’ Medici, 4th Grand Duke of Tuscany (1609-21), lead medal, 1610, young bust right, rev., Grand Ducal coronet and sceptre with the Medici balls, 40mm (cf. Pollard Bargello 461 = Vannel & Toderi 64-65 in gold), pierced, very fine and rare [Clifford lot 92]. The reverse design is copied from an earlier Medici medal by Michele Mazzafirri. Mola’s head of the young Cosimo influenced the portrait medal by Dupré of 1613 and, later on, Selvi’s version from the Medici series made in the 18th century.
Lot 60
Gaspare Morone (1603-69), Fabio Chigi, Pope Alexander VII (1655-67), bronze annual medals (2) for year 6, rev., the Naval Arsenal at Civitavecchia by Bernini (the scene copied from a sketch by Giulio Cerruti), 42mm (Vannel & Toderi, Bargello, 459; Tocci/Worsdale 295) and year 11, rev., the ceremony of the canonization of St. Francis de Sales within St. Peter’s, 1665, 42mm (Vannel & Toderi, Bargello, 476; Tocci/Worsdale 307 var.); Maffeo Barberini, Pope Urban VIII (1623-44) bronze medal, year 20, rev., view of the walls of Rome, 45mm (Vannel & Toderi 399/400), very fine [includes Clifford lot 191] (3)
Lot 61
*Gioacchino Francesco Travani (fl. 1634-75), Fabio Chigi, Pope Alexander VII (1655-67), bronze foundation medal, 1662, for the church of Sta. Maria in Campitelli, Rome, bust left in papal tiara; signed g.f.t., rev., a view of the façade of the church to the original design of Carlo Rainaldi, 70mm (Vannel & Toderi, Bargello, 509; Bonnani II, 641, 34), extremely fine contemporary cast (with collector’s number in white enamel on truncation) [Clifford lot 195]. Ex Stonyhurst College, Christie’s, 6 March 1990, lot 733.
Lot 62
Alberto Hamerani (1620-77), Emiliero Altieri, Pope Clement X (1670-76), bronze annual medal, year 1, rev., Christ washing the feet of a disciple, 40mm (Lincoln -; BM P.1287.92), extremely fine; Giovanni Hamerani, Giovanni Albani, Pope Clement XI (1670-76), bronze annual medal, year 14, rev., church and baths of Nocera, 40mm (Lincoln 1656), extremely fine; Girolamo Paladino (1647-89), Pope Nicholas V (1447-55), gilt-bronze restitution medal, 42mm (Vannel & Toderi, Bargello, 601), early cast, very fine [includes Clifford lots 200 and 229] (3)
Lot 64
Livio I Odescalchi, Duke of Bracciano (1652-1713), a series of three medals comprising, rev., bust of his sister Giovanna, 1677, in bronze by Giovanni Hamerani, 26mm (Mirnik 2); rev., a female reclining and examining estate maps, in bronze by Ferdinand de Saint Urbain, 42mm (Mirnik 5); and rev., winged Genius, in silvered bronze by Antonio de Gennaro, 36mm (Mirnik 7), mainly very fine, the last better [Clifford lots 257, 260, 261] (3) References are to Ivan Mirnik, “Livio Odescalchi on Medals”, The Medal, Autumn 1994, pp. 50-55. A nephew of Innocent XI, Livio Odescalchi inherited his uncle’s wealth and was a major patron of artists in Rome including Bernini. He bought the numismatic collection of Queen Christina of Sweden.
Lot 65
*Massimiliano Soldani-Benzi (1656-1740), Francesco Redi (1626-98), poet, philosopher and scientist, bronze medal, 1684, bust right, signed and dated below, rev., Minerva revealing Nature, 87.8mm (VT 37; Vannel & Toderi, Bargello, 179-82), pierced, casting flaw behind bust, very fine [Clifford lot 298]
Lot 66
*Massimiliano Soldani-Benzi (1656-1740), (Charles V of Lorraine), uniface bronze reverse of the medal of 1686 commemorating the relief of Vienna, Charles as a Roman general rescuing the Church from the clutches of a Turk; signed below, m.s., 93mm (TV45; Vannel & Toderi, Bargello, 197 for a similar uniface specimen), pierced, an extremely fine cast of high quality [Clifford lot 302]
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