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Auction 74  12-13 Apr 2023
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Lot 709

Estimate: 100 GBP
Price realized: 80 GBP
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Italy, Andrea Gerini (1691-1766), Marchese, patron of the arts and collector, large cast bronze medal, undated, by Giovanni Zanobio Weber, bust r. in loose gown, rev. a winged male figure, the Genius of the Arts, stands amidst various attributes of the arts, AFFLAT ET VRGET, decorative border to both sides, 77mm. (V & T 403), a slightly 'untidy' cast, very fine
The medal has been attributed to Lorenzo Maria Weber (and still is on the V & A website). Andrea Gerini had inherited the collection of Carlo Gerini and this was to be the stimulus to his own collecting and patronage.

Estimate: 100 - 150 GBP
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