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Auction: 390 - Renaissance Plaquettes and Commemorative Medals featuring the Neil A. Goodman Collection - e-Auction
Lot: 117

ITALIAN, second half of the 15th Century
Diomedes and the Palladium. Oval plaquette. Bronze, 41.5 x 51mm, Early or Contemporary Cast. Diomedes, one arm draped, holding a sword and Palladium, sits right on a garlanded cubic altar. Molinier 31; Bange 141; Pope Hennessy 257; Ricci ii 37. This piece is a free adaptation of a famed antique chalcedony intaglio signed by Polykleitos and owned by Pope Paul II, then by Lorenzo de'Medici, now in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples. Scratches on back. An Extremely Fine old cast. Ex Heidelberger Herbert Grun, by private treaty, May 15, 2013.
From the Neil A. Goodman Collection

Estimate
$1,500 to $2,000

Starting price
$1050