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Auction 93  27 Jun 2018
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Lot 157

Estimate: 300 GBP
Price realized: 2600 GBP
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The Master IO FF, Allegory of Unity (or the Revolt of Volero Publilius), bronze circular plaquette, 65.5mm (Molinier 142; Bange 661; cf. Kress 108; Scaglia VI.9; Ashmolean 282), cast with a wide rim, very fine early cast, the reverse with three mount marks From the collection of the late Sir John Pope-Hennessey. Also known as a shield-shaped plaquette, the subject has been interpreted as either a scene from Aesop's Fable of "The Bundle of Sticks" or in the more historical context of the revolt of Volero Publilius in 473 BC, as related by Livy.
Estimate: 300-500 GBP
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