*Italy, Master of the Martelli Mirror, A Satyr and a Bacchante, in bronze-gilt, a copy of the mirror in the V&A Museum, London, 177mm (for the original see Warren, Ashmolean, p. 832, fig. 310 and his discussion on the authorship and meaning of the allegory, pp. 834-5), a later copy, with a fitted red velvet mount for display. Provenance: David Peel, Spring Exhibition, 1969, no. 15. For another copy of the V&A mirror see the Timothy Clifford sale catalogue, Spink/Christie's, 21 May 1996, lot 350.
(800-1200 GBP)