Watch List notes:

Valerio Belli (1468-1546), Christ's Entry into Jerusalem and Christ in Limbo, a pair of trapezoidal bronze plaquettes, the former 63 x 100.8mm (Molinier 266; Bange 762; Gasparotto 53) and the latter with signature VALER BELLVS VICETI, 62 x 100.4mm (Molinier 279; Bange 770; Gasparotto 60), each with solder mark on reverse, very fine contemporary casts, uniform brown patinas. These form part of a series of similarly shaped plaquettes of the Passion of Christ referred to in the Kress catalogue, p. 10, of which The Entombment (Kress 10, fig. 352) is also from the Baron de Monville collection. Christ's Entry into Jerusalem relates to an engraved rock-crystal which is signed VALERIVS F in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (inv. 1941-920-203). Provenance: Baron de Monville collection (sold Paris, 24 January 1861) and each plaquette stamped with his collector's mark B.M; also ex Spitzer collection, Paris; Morton & Eden, 18 April 2002, lot 537; and 5-6 June 2013, lot 623.
(15000-20000 GBP)