Watch List notes:

Italian (late 16th/17th century), after Guglielmo della Porta, The Pieta, bronze-gilt pax, the Virgin supporting the body of Christ at the foot of the cross; instruments of the Passion in the foreground; within an ornate frame with caryatids at the sides, a cherub's face above, elsewhere scrollwork, a cartouche below, the whole surmounted by a scallop shell, 148 x 94mm (for a larger and grander relief of this type see Warren, Ashmolean, p. 805, fig. 299; Bange 49 var.), with stand on reverse, very fine contemporary cast Ex Alain Edrei (1931-2021) collection, Paris [inventory number 222 in red on reverse; ex Erik Le Caruyer de Bauvais collection, Sotheby's Paris, 31 March 2017, lot 2.

Estimate: 800 - 1200 GBP