Watch List notes:

*Italy/Great Britain, Sir Henry Newton (1651-1715), bronze medal by Massimiliano Soldani, 1709, draped bust of Newton right, rev., Pallas and Prudence embracing, 87.5mm (Vannel & Toderi 61; MI 367/209), brown patina, good very fine and rare Sir Henry Newton, as the English ambassador in Florence, commissioned Soldani on behalf of the first Duke of Marlborough to make four copies in bronze of antique marble statues in the Tribuna of the Uffizzi Gallery. Of the four, The Medici Venus and The Dancing Faun remain to this day at Blenheim Palace while The Wrestlers and The Knife-Grinder have recently been acquired for the collection of the Prince of Liechtenstein.

Estimate: £1000 - 1500