Cristoforo di Geremia, Sacrifice to Priapus, oval bronze plaquette, inscribed in the exergue L C I, 61mm x 54.3mm (Molinier 118; Bange 416; cf. Rossi, Mantegna, 2006, 40 – set in an oil lamp), an early but worn cast with mount mark at top and two small casting cracks at rim below An example of the companion piece to this, Sacrifice to Cupid. was in the Charles Avery collection, sold here on 11 June 2008, lot 374. See also Anthony Radcliffe, "Two Early Romano-Mantuan Plaquettes" in Studies in the History of Art 22, 93-103 and fig. 2 – mounted into a lamp cover.
Estimate: 300-400 GBP