Watch List notes:

*Italy, After the Antique (late 15th century), Aesculapius, bronze oval plaquette, Aesculapius standing before altar and holding serpent-entwined staff, 57.8 x 37.8mm (Molinier 19; Bange 111; Kress 254), pierced, fine early cast. This reproduces an antique gem, now lost, but probably formerly in the Medici collection. The design appears in the margin of the illuminated title page of Pliny's Natural History of c.1479-83, and elsewhere. See also Laurie Fusco and Gino Corti, Lorenzo de' Medici, Collector and Antiquarian, Cambridge, 2006. Provenance: Morton & Eden 1, 18 April 2002, lot 535.
(300-400 GBP)