*Italy, After the Antique (third quarter of 15th century), A Centaur, bronze oval plaquette, the centaur draped with lion's skin and holding a thyrsus and krater on his shoulders, 49.3 x 40.8mm (Molinier 20; Bange 110; Kress 255; Scaglia I.4; Bargello 12; Warren, Ashmolean 354), pierced, very fine early cast. Provenance: Dr. Wilhelm Salber collection, Galerie Moenius, 23 March 2018, lot 103. See also, Riddick, M., "Donatello. The Birth of Renaissance Plaquettes and their Representation in the Berlin Sculpture Collection" fig. 15 (publication forthcoming).
(300-400 GBP)