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Auction: 8004 - An Important Collection of Renaissance Medals & Plaquettes
Lot: 126

Niccolò di Forzore Spinelli, called Niccolò Fiorentino (1430-1514) Nonnina Strozzi, rectangular bronze medal, 81mm. x 51.4mm., a later cast from the portrait medal, brown patina, pierced at top, trace of number in ink on the reverse Obverse: bust in profile to the right, hair held by a small bonnet fastened with a ribbon under the chin, wearing a square-cut bodice, a short pearl necklace, and a cameo of a laureate head right, on a chain, no legend Reverse: blank Niccolò Fiorentino made medals of both Bernardo del Barbigia (1453-1505) and his wife Nonina Strozzi with the figure of Hope on the reverse, to commemorate their marriage in 1489. References Armand I, 93, 2; Hill 957 (with figure of Hope on reverse) Estimate £ 400-600

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£900