North Italian (c. 1500), The Pietà, bronze and parcel-gilt plaquette, three-quarter length figure of the Dead Christ in the sarcophagus against the background of a curtain above which is a shell niche, 90 x 47mm (cf. Molinier 467; Bange 720; Kress 345, fig. 293), pierced, very fine early cast Ex Alain Edrei (1931-2021) collection, Paris [inventory number 31 bis in red on reverse]; ex Seymour de Ricci collection, Beausant Lefèvre, Paris, 24 March 2010, lot 64 and since that sale cleaned by M. Edrei to reveal the gilding.
Estimate: 1000 - 1500 GBP