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Lot 116
George II, Prosperity and Peace, 1750, bronze medal by Dassier, 55mm (M.I. II/658/363; Eimer 630), tooled at m of date mdccl, otherwise extremely fine; George III, Defeat of Sultan Tippoo, 1792, bronze medal by Küchler for Soho mint, with correct date mdccxcii., 57.5mm (B.H.M. 363; Pollard 5; Eimer 845), minor marks, extremely fine and Centenary of the Accession of the House of Brunswick, 1814, bronze medal by Thomas Wyon Jr., 50.5mm (B.H.M. 779; Eimer 1056), good extremely fine (3)
Lot 117
*George II, Memorial to Frederick, Prince of Wales, 1751, silver medal by J. Kirk, the Prince’s bust left, rev., Britannia weeping beside sarcophagus bearing the Prince of Wales’ feathers and from which rises a phoenix, old style date mdccl in exergue, 35 mm. (M.I. II/661/367; Eimer 634), good very fine
Lot 119
Miscellaneous: George IV, Coronation, 1821, silver medal by Pistrucci, 35mm (Eimer 1146), about extremely fine and toned; white metal medals (3), for Reform Bill, 1832 (Eimer 1244), American Ladies Hospital Ship Fund / S.S. Maine, 1899 and Daily Record, 1934, all extremely fine; bronze medals (2), for Admiral Vernon, 1739 and Board of Trade Rocket Apparatus Proof of Service at a Wreck, both about very fine; tokens (2), 17th century Worcester halfpenny of Will Swift, very good and Irish farthing of Todd, Burns & Co., 1834, very fine; East India Company, General Claude Martin, copper token or medalet, circa 1796, by McKenzie, 33mm, good fine and Ceylon, Wekande Mills, George Steuart & Co., token, 1843, 29mm, about extremely fine; and unofficial pieces depicting Edward VIII (2) (12)
Lot 129
Austria, Radetzky’s Victories in Italy 1848-49, bronze medal by Scharff, 57mm and Opening of the Vienna Arts and Industry Museum 1871, bronze medal by Radnitsky, 56mm, both good extremely fine; with a group of diverse European and other medals, etc. including a silver jeton for the Coronation of Empress Elizabeth of Hungary, 1867, 23.5mm, Netherlands, silver medal of the Henri Daniel Guyot Institute, 1840, with portrait, signed v.d.k, 42mm, Switzerland, Iohannes de Saconay Memorial in bronze by Dassier, 40mm, Belgium, Schaerbeek City Hall, large bronzed medal, 1887, 62mm, U.S.A., General Lafayette, bronze portrait medal by Caunois, 47mm and a brass plaquette by Morgan for the Departure of the Atlantic Fleet, 1907; and other bronze or brass medals of Denmark, 1892, Olmutz, 1902, Bombardment of Rotterdam 1940 (dated 1946) and Luxembourg, 1945, and in alloy and in white metal of Cuba (2), 1898, 1901; together with a pewter salver commemorating the 1930 Round Europe Air Race, depicting aircraft in mountains with Bernese shield, 240mm, mostly extremely fine (16)
Lot 134
France, various copper and bronze medals (18), including Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, bronzed copper medal by Duvivier commemorating 12 marriages to mark the birth of the Dauphin, 1781, 45mm, an old restrike, minor marks, good very fine; Surrender of Mantua, 1797, bronzed copper medal by Lavy, 42mm (Ess. 701; H. 784), mint state; Monument to Joan of Arc, 1820, by Andrieu and Depaulis, 49mm; Events in the Life of Louis XIV, six medals from the series including restrikes and one gilt restrike, all 41mm; other medals of various dates circa 1771-1924, mostly 38mm or larger but including a smaller silvered jeton for Charles X’s Coronation; also a miniature silver portrait medalet of Louis XVIII / Henri IV, and a named silver agricultural prize medal, 1902, by Bertrand, 40mm, one or two worn but mostly good very fine or better (20)
Lot 135
France, Napoleon, white metal medal on his death, 1821, by Thomason and Jones, 53mm, virtually as struck; copper medals (2), for his surrender, 1820 and the return of his remains to Paris, 1840, 41mm; uniface copy of the obverse of the medal of the passage of Napoleon’s remains at Rouen, set in mount; and an unofficial copy in silver of the veteran’s badge (1857), very fine to about extremely fine (5)
Lot 137
Germany, Capture of Breisach, 1638, silver medal by Johann Blum, obv., Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar, rev., City view, 52.5mm (Berstett 96; Jungk. 2; Mers. 3860), Netherlands, Centenary of the Surrender of ‘s-Hertogenbosch, 1729, silver medalet or jeton of double thickness, with City view, 30mm and Sweden, Maria Eleonora, Memorial silver jeton, 1655, first two with edge bruises, only about fine; copper or bronze later casts of medals (4), including portraits of Isabella Michel, wife of Giambattista Sesso (Arm. I, 127, 8), 44mm and of Thomas Marinus, 50mm; together with an unattributed small bronze medal portraying a seated lion, rev., quo modo occidens victus est., 35mm, a cast brass token or medallion with crossed anchors, 41mm and a double-sided lignum vitae counter representing two of Æsop’s Fables, 50mm, mixed grades and quality (10)
Lot 140
*Germany, Bishopric of Regensburg, Sede Vacante, 1763, silver medal by Busch and Oexlein, view of Regensburg Cathedral, rev., St. Peter in coracle holding key and fish at centre, 15 shields around, 55mm (Zepernick 248; Emmerig / Kozinowski 106.2), minor marks from handling, extremely fine and lightly toned
Lot 141
Germany, various medals in silver (5), comprising: Prussia, Marriage of Princess Luise, 1798, by Loos, 35mm, Württemberg, Wilhelm II, 1910, in high relief, 41mm, Schubert Centenary Memorial, 1928, by Bavarian Mint, 35mm, Ludendorff Memorial, 1937, by Vienna mint, and a miniature Brandenburg medalet; and in base metal (9), including: Olympic Trials, bronze medals (2), undated, similar, with portrait of Wilhelm II, 50mm, and large cast iron portrait medal of Bismarck commemorating his reconciliation with the Kaiser, 26 January 1894, 97mm, others mainly bronze late 19th or early 19th Century, 35-47mm, the first with surface scuffs, all good very fine or better (14)
Lot 164
*Italy, Pseudo-Fra Antonio da Brescia, Apollo and Python, bronze plaquette (early 16th century), naked Apollo holding bow and standing facing, his left arm resting on a tree stump from which hangs his quiver; at his feet the dead serpent/dragon Python; in the background, a landscape with trees and a ruined tower, 66.4mm (Molinier 119; Bange 642; Kress 187 and fig. 236; Warren, Ashmolean Museum Plaquetttes, 333), small piercing at top, an extremely fine contemporary cast with brown patina (the reverse with collectors’ numbers and an old ticket now unattached) Ex Dr G. Brockmann collection, Peus 411, 31 October 2013, lot 1218. The association of this plaquette with Fra Antonio da Brescia depends on the reverse of a signed medal of a certain Niccolò Vonico of Treviso with a similar reverse design to the present plaquette (as Hill 476). But commentators suggest that the plaquette is the more successful version of the two designs and that the signed medal actually copies the plaquette – hence the name given to the plaquette maker of this and some other associated pieces as Pseudo-Fra Antonio da Brescia. Douglas Lewis (in “Collectors of Renaissance Reliefs: Erasmus of Rotterdam (1466-1536) and Baron Boissel de Monville (1763-1832)”, St.HistArt 70, 2008, p. 130) has renamed him the “Vicentine Master of 1507” due to his close relationship with two artists of Vicenza, the painter Bartolomeo Montagna and the printmaker Benedetto Montagna. He calls the subject matter of the present plaquette Virtue Triumphant over Vice (publication pending).
Lot 174
*Italy, Francesco I da Carrara (1325-93), bronze medal (struck), as Lord of Padua (1350-88), carro, rev., helm, 29mm (Hill 6), about very fine Gothic style medals such as this were struck for the Carrara family in the late 14th century for placing in the walls and under the foundation stones of buildings. They pre-date Pisanello’s invention of the renaissance portrait medal.
Lot 175
*Italy, Leonello d’Este (1407-50), as Marquis of Ferrara (from 1441), bronze medal by Pisanello, leonellvs marchio estensis, bare head right, rev., opvs pisani pictoris, triple-faced head of an infant flanked by two poleyns (armour to protect the knee) suspended from juniper branches, 67mm (Hill 24; Armand I, 3, 4; Pollard 6 = Kress 6; Bargello 7), pierced, extremely fine old cast with brown patina Ex Spink, 24 January 2008, lot 92.
Lot 176
*Italy, Rimini, Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta, Lord of Rimini and Fano (1432-68), bronze medal, dated 1446, by Matteo de’ Pasti, bare-headed bust left, rev., Fortitude seated facing in a meadow, the sides of the seat formed of foreparts of elephants, holding a broken column; below, mccccxlvi, 82mm (Hill 180; Armand I, 20, 11; Pollard 26 = Kress 61), a very fine contemporary cast with brown patina
Lot 177
*Italy, Rimini, Isotta degli Atti, mistress and then wife of Sigismondo Malatesta, bronze medal by Matteo de’ Pasti, isote ariminensi forma et virtvte italie decori (“to Isotta of Rimini, the ornament of Italy for beauty and virtue”), veiled bust of Isotta right, rev., opvs mattei de pasti v, the Malatesta elephant standing to right in a flowery meadow, 84.5mm (Hill 167; Armand I, 21, 20; Pollard 31 = Kress 59 = Scher, Currency of Fame, 12), pierced and the date of 1446 erased from the reverse, a very fine contemporary cast Ex Astarte IX, 15 May 2002, lot 733; John R. Gaines collection, Morton & Eden, 8 December 2005, lot 3 and Stack collection, Morton & Eden, 9 December 2009, lot 44.
Lot 179
*Italy, Enrico Bruni (died 1509), secretary to Pope Alexander VI and Archbishop of Taranto from 1498, bronze medal attributed to Donato Bramante, bust right, rev., nostrvm est volenti servit (“our wish is to serve”), an hour glass, 46mm (Hill 663 = Arm. III, 174, A), pierced, a very fine contemporary cast, extremely rare Ex Bibliothèque d’un Érudit Bibliophile – Pierre Jammes collection, Sotheby Paris, 12-13 October 2010, lot 245 part. This piece belongs to a group of Roman medals formerly given to Caradosso Foppa but re-attributed by Luke Syson in Currency of Fame (1994, see pp 113-115 for his arguments) to the great Italian architect Donato Bramante. The pieces concerned are the three varieties of medals of Julius II (two of which are considered to be foundation medals of St. Peter’s), the present type of medal of Enrico Bruni and, above all, the medal of Bramante himself, now proposed as a self-portrait – and all relate in some way to Bramante’s work on St. Peter’s. Stylistically they stand apart from Caradosso’s Milanese medals of the Sforzas. In 1507 Enrico Bruni laid the foundation stones for three of the four piers that support the columns bearing the weight of the dome of St. Peter’s. Hill records the only specimen known to him, which was acquired for the British Museum (through the National Art Collections Fund) from the R.C. Fisher sale at Sotheby on 10th May 1921, lot 9 and it is this same piece that is cited by Armand – hence the 1921 catalogue describing it as “appears to be unique”; it sold for 60. In addition to that and the present medal, another was sold by Münzen und Medaillen, Auction 90, 14 June 2000, lot 412. All three examples are pierced and have identical diameters of 46mm.
Lot 183
*Italy, Apollo with the Three Graces, uniface lead medal by Pompeo Leoni (the reverse of a medal of Don Carlos, son of Philip II of Spain, died 1568), Apollo standing left, naked but for cloak billowing around head, holding bow and arrows in left hand and a group of the Three Graces on his extended right hand; trees and lyre at his feet, 67mm (cf. Attwood 118), a very fine early cast
Lot 184
*Valerio Malvicini, Dominican friar, bronze memorial medal, 1566, bust right in habit, rev., lion’s head set on plinth with bees flying from open mouth, 40mm (Arm. II, 232, 16; Attwood -), pierced, scratches in field before bust, a very fine contemporary cast with dark patina Ex Hall collection, part III, lot 2260.
Lot 185
*Italy, François de Lorraine (1519-63), Duc de Guise from 1550, uniface lead medal by Pastorino, 1557, bust right with date incised on truncation, 65mm (Attwood 582; cf. Arm. I, 201, 77), dark patina, a very fine contemporary cast Ex Hall collection, part III, lot 2009 (where erroneously attributed).
Lot 189
*Italy, Alfonso Paleotti (1531-1610), Archbishop of Bologna from 1597, bronze medal attributed to Casoni, on the reconstruction of St. Peter’s cathedral in Bologna in 1605, bust left in habit, rev., St. Peter, 67mm (Toderi/Vannel 1333; Börner 1871), pierced, an extremely fine contemporary cast The attribution to Casoni of this and the following lot is accepted by Toderi and Vannel but doubted by Attwood and Börner on the grounds of style and fabric.
Lot 190
*Italy, Alfonso Paleotti (1531-1610), Archbishop of Bologna from 1597, bronze medal attributed to Casoni, on the reconstruction of St. Peter’s cathedral in Bologna in 1605, bust left in habit, rev., the Madonna and Child, 66.5mm (Toderi/Vannel 1336; Börner 1872; Bargello 50), pierced, an extremely fine contemporary cast
Lot 195
*Italy, Cosimo de’ Medici, called il Vecchio (1389-1464), bronze medal by Antonio Selvi (from the Medici series of medals announced in 1740), bust right, rev., semper, three interlinked finger rings (arranged as Borromean rings), 84.5mm (Vannel/Toderi 250; Clifford 325), extremely fine with dark patina Ex Lankheit collection, Morton & Eden, 20 May 2003, lot 781 and Avery collection, Morton & Eden, 11 June 2008, lot 512.
Lot 196
*Italy, Francesco Maria de’ Medici (1660-1711), Cardinal, bronze medal by Carlo Citerni, bust left; signed c citer f on truncation, rev., Tuscany pointing to a Medici shield supported by a child and standing over a reclining figure of the river-god Arno, 71.2mm (Bargello 802), brown patina, extremely fine
Lot 197
*Italy, Ulderico (1595-1679) and Gaspare (1625-1714) Carpegna, Cardinals, bronze medal, 1675, by Carlo Citerni, jugate busts right; signed c c f on truncation, rev., a view of the town of Carpegna, 61mm (Bargello 799), pierced, about extremely fine Gaspare Carpegna formed an important numismatic collection which was acquired for the Vatican cabinet by Pope Benedict XIV in 1741-43.
Lot 200
*France, Jean Baptiste Duval, Royal Interpreter of oriental languages (died 1632), uniface lead medal, dated 1630, draped and cuirassed bust right; io baptista dv val ling orient interpres reg, 55mm, very fine early cast Duval’s manuscript Arabic-Latin dictionary compiled in Venice in 1610 is in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, and was published as the Dictionarium Latino Arabicum Davidis Regis by Antoine Vitray, the king’s official printer of oriental languages.
Lot 201
*France, Louis XIV (1643-1715) and his mother Anne of Austria, uniface bronze medal, c. 1645, half-length busts of Louis XIV as a six year old and his mother facing each other, the child playing with the tassel on her gown, rev., with incuse impression of obverse, 95.8mm (cf. Jones, BMC, 208; Mazerolle Warin 60), plugged and with trace of mount on reverse, an extremely fine early cast with brown patina The medal is normally found with a reverse of the Church of Val-de-Grâce in Paris, the foundation stone of which was laid on 1 April 1645.
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