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Auction: 8004 - An Important Collection of Renaissance Medals & Plaquettes
Lot: 42

North Italian, possibly Paduan School (late 15th century) Virgin and Child with Angels, rectangular bronze plaquette, 94mm. x 73.3mm., a very fine contemporary cast, light brown patina, pierced in each corner, old writing and number in ink on the reverse The Virgin and Child stand on a platform with a balustrade in front, a shell niche behind, and two free standing columns to left and right. Ten naked child angels decorate the balustrade with garlands and two others attach garlands from the columns to the niche. Four draped adult angels, two on the Virgin´s left and two on her right, stand holding long torches The plaquette survives in numerous versions. In the Museum at Pienza it is mounted as a Pax. Molinier, Bange, Planiscig and Maclagan regard it as Paduan. Middendorf suggests it may be Sienese. Pope-Hennessy suggests it may be Ferrarese. Bange dates it as late as 1520 but most others agree it probably dates from the second half of the 15th century. References Bange 1922, 568; Cott p. 145; Florence, Bargello, Carrand, 415, 416; Frankfurt on Maine 22B; Kress 303; London, British Museum, T.W. Greene, 332; London Wallace collection, 308; Maclagan p. 43; Molinier 381; Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, 46; Paris, Louvre, 347; Planiscig 1924, 401; Ricci, ii, p.178, no. 240; Rizzoli 20; Sambon 103, pl. VII; Venice, Museo Correr, 33 Estimate £ 300-500

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