The Manny Davidson Collection: A Life in Treasures and Benevolence - Day Sale

Italian, Florence, circa 1700

Sibyl and Prophet

No reserve

No Reserves

Auction Closed

November 6, 07:36 PM GMT

Estimate

5,000 - 7,000 EUR

Lot Details

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Description

bronze; on ebonised wood bases with brass inlay

bronzes: 23cm., 9in.

bases: 9cm., 3½in.

(2)

Sotheby's London, 6 December 2016, lot 102;

Where acquired.

A pair of casts of these models, catalogued as Florentine, second half of the 17th century, is in the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich (inv. nos. 1091 and 1077). Another pair were formerly in the Abbott Guggenheim Collection.

RELATED LITERATURE

M. Schwartz, European Sculpture from the Abbott Guggenheim Collection, New York, 2008, p. 181, no. 96.

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