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Baldwin's of St. James's
Auction 8  20 Sep 2017
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Lot 479

Estimate: 1500 GBP
Price realized: 2600 GBP
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Commemorative Medals, Italy, Vatican, Clement XI (1649-1700-1721), Giovanni Francesco Albani, a superb large uniface cast bronze medallic plaquette, 1706-07, by Charles Claude Dubut, bust r., wearing robes and tiara, CLEMENS: XI: :PONT: MAX: AN: VII, raised border, 131.5mm. (Miselli pp. 74-5, 64a: Roma Resurgens 148), a superb medal, with a contemporary suspension loop attached through rim, good very fine and well patinated with age
Charles Claude Dubut (1687-1742) was a sculptor, stuccoer, medallist and wax modeller. He was educated in Paris and Rome and later worked at the Dresden court, then Berlin, before he settled in Munich. See also, Arne R. Flaten, Medals and Plaquettes in the Ulrich Middeldorf Collection at the Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, Indiana, 2012.
The Alan Irvine Collection of Historical and Artistic Medals (1500-2000 GBP)
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