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Auction 121  20 Apr 2023
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Lot 71

Starting price: 500 GBP
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North Italian (Venetian? c. 1500), The Madonna and Child surrounded by Angels, bronze plaquette, the Virgin looking down at the Child, flanked by two angels and with five others in the sky; set within ornamented frame with raised knobs in the corners, 80 x 56.8mm (Molinier 379; Bange 517; Kress 315, fig. 243; Warren, Ashmolean, 380, Wallace, 52), pierced at top and bottom, fine contemporary cast, brown patina Ex Alain Edrei (1931-2021) collection, Paris [inventory number 237 in red on reverse]; ex Riddick collection, Morton & Eden 27 June 2019, lot 865; David Abbate collection, New York; and Sotheby's New York, 28 November 1980, lot 70. Warren has suggested that this and a companion plaquette, The Dead Christ with the Virgin and St. John, were intended as book covers.

Estimate: 600 - 800 GBP
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