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Auction: 24124 - Spink Numismatic e-Circular 36: British and World Coins and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 1852

Italy, Jacopo Nizzola da Trezzo, Bronze Cast Medal, c. 1552, Seventeenth Birthday of Ippolita Gonzaga, daughter of Ferdinand II (1535-1563), HIPPOLYTA . GONZAGA . FERDINANDI . FIL . AN . XVII, draped and filleted bust left, rev. VIRTVTIS FORMÆQ PRÆVIA, Aurora riding through the heavens, 69mm, 96.11g (Armand I, 241, 1; Pollard (Bargello) III, 722; Kress 438; Attwood 71b; Pollard 503), some deposits to the reverse field, otherwise with uniformly chocolate brown surfaces, good extremely fine

Provenance

The "Estafefette No. 21" Collection of Ancient, English and World Coins

Sotheby's, 23 May 1988, lot 65, 'bown patina, a very fine early cast'

Purchased Reichmann, Halle, 1930


The obverse portrait is copied from a medal by Leoni. See 'Splendours of the Gonzaga' exhibition catalogue (London, 1981), 'Ippolita was removed as one of the most beautiful and accomplished women of her day…' The medal can be dated to 1552, the year after the death of her first husband, Fabrizio Colonna. She died suddenly in Naples in 1563, aged 28.

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Sold for
£650

Starting price
£600