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Auction 93  27 Jun 2018
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Lot 151

Estimate: 500 GBP
Price realized: 850 GBP
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Pseudo-Fra Antonio da Brescia, Abundance and a Satyr, bronze-gilt plaquette, 57.3mm (Molinier 121; Bange 644; cf. Kress 189, fig. 238; Scaglia III.19; Ashmolean 334), pierced, slightly convex form with roughened edge (probably made for fitment into a sword pommel), fine contemporary cast As related by Jeremy Warren in the Ashmolean catalogue (pp. 762-67 and fig. 279) an image of this type of plaquette, along with others, is found in the 1521 prayer book of Matthäus Schwarz, Augsburg merchant and bookkeeper to the Fuggers – and this presumably represents the plaquette's earliest depiction in another medium.
Estimate: 500-700 GBP
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