Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
09-11 May 1923
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/566
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    424 Bronze Nutcrackers, 15¢h Century; another pair, steel and brass ; and a Rapier, with chased steel guard and pommel 3 425 A steel Gun-cleaning Implement ; two pairs of Pliers; Swivel; Belt Buckle; and sundry other steel pieces 13 426 A Dice Box, steel, circular, richly inlaid with hunting scenes, dice, p etc., in silver, and the name of Franc. Gonzaga, Duke of Mantuaz-6° (1540- 1550): and a rock crystal Die, with signs of the Zodiac 2 Fintan [See ILLUSTRATION. | BRONZES, Etc. A BRONZE MortakR, with busts of Diirer, alternating with medallions of Caesars; German, 16th Century, 3 in. high A pair of small bronze Figures of Adamand Eve, painted in colours zo] Ree on marble stand, German, 16th Century ; ad a Stick Handle ve (Juden Kopf) ; ah ie. and OF an. high 2 beichaee | 429 A Monumental Brass of Stephan and Dorothea Muffel of Nurnberg (d. 1549-1551); German, 184 in. high 430 A BRONZE FOUNTAIN: An elegant female figure holding two ewers, on circular bronze stand; German, 16th Century, 194 in. high [See ILLUSTRATION. | ‘gibi See A bronze gilt Spice Box in for ar, the back pier _/f1 Of similar Box, in form of recumbent bull; German, 16th Coie Y, ty 3% in. long 9 Rye L<t AN OBLONG CASKET, with drawer, the cover and four sides having __ in relief centaurs and maenads, cupids and Medusa heads, with Medusa on the front between cornucopie (see Fritz Goldschmidt, Italienischen Bronzen, 1914, No. 250, and pl. 68), by Agostino det Fonduti, of Padua, usually atiributed to Caradosso ; late 15th Century, 8 in. long [ See ILLUSTRATION. | 433 A BRONZE INKSTAND, triangular, the sides being repetitions of the same plaquette, five putti playing with a Bacchus mask ; 34 727. long; Paduan work, early 16th Century 434 A BRONZE SWORD POMMEL, cast in relief and chased with contest of Centaurs and Lapiths with Hercules; pale brown patina, a finely finished piece, by Caradosso; 2in. high
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