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Auction 121  20 Apr 2023
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Lot 55

Starting price: 400 GBP
Price realized: 400 GBP
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Andrea Briosco, called Riccio (c. 1470-1532), An Allegory of Spirit and Matter, bronze plaquette, a naked boy holding a ewer, his foot on a crouching satyr, as he leans against a large vase and pulls down on a winged branch which grows from the stump of a dead tree and around which coils a snake; on the right is a barren tree from which hangs a bucket and above which is a zephyr head; broad border around, 62.5mm (Bargello 203; Scaglia VII.6 and variant C), early cast, pierced and with collector's mark (?) stamped on reverse Ex Alain Edrei (1931-2021) collection, Paris [inventory number 122 BIS in red on reverse]; ex Galerie Sismann, Paris.

Estimate: 500 - 700 GBP
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