Roman school, 16th century, The Lamentation, bronze plaquette, Christ's body attended by the Virgin, St. John, Joseph of Arimathea, Nicodemus and other figures, 104 x 73.7mm (Molinier 568-9; Bange 1028; Kress 300, fig. 391; Scaglia VIII.9), very fine early cast, somewhat weak and with sprue showing on reverse. Provenance: David Abbate (New York City); Heinz Schneider (Cleveland, Ohio), Edwin Lubin, New York dealer. Exhibited at the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1975 (Wixom, W.D., Renaissance Bronzes from Ohio Collections, exhibition catalogue, Cleveland Museum of Art (1975), 57).
(600-800 GBP)