Watch List notes:

*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. (2000 - 3000)