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Master of the Unruly Children, probably Sandro di Lorenzo di Smeraldo (1483 – circa 1554) | Italian, Florence, first half 16th century | Pair of Kneeling Angels

Lot Closed

December 7, 03:30 PM GMT

Estimate

40,000 - 60,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Master of the Unruly Children, probably Sandro di Lorenzo di Smeraldo (1483 – circa 1554)

Italian, Florence, first half 16th century

Pair of Kneeling Angels



terracotta

52cm., 20½in. and 53cm., 20⅞in.

William Gwinn Mather (1857-1951), Cleveland, Ohio, by 1922;
by descent to his wife, Elizabeth Ring Ireland Mather (1891-1957);
by descent to her son, James Duane Ireland II (1913-1991);
by descent into the Ireland family, Shaker Heights, Ohio, until 2016
Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art, Special Exhibition of Renaissance Art, 1922
W.M. Milliken, 'Special Exhibition of Renaissance Art in Gallery II', in The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. IX/4, April 1922, pp. 55-58;
L. Principi, Il Maestro dei Bambini Turbolenti: Sandro di Lorenzo scultore in terracotta agli albori della Maniera, Perugia, 2020, pp. 273-283, figs. 244-246, 251, 254, 260, 263; pp. 381-382, no. 49a-b