Bronzes from the Robert Mayer Collection, Vienna
NORTHERN ITALIAN, PROBABLY PADUA, CIRCA 1450-1480 | PLAQUETTE WITH THE VIRGIN AND CHILD SURROUNDED BY ANGELS
Auction Closed
December 3, 02:41 PM GMT
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Bronzes from the Robert Mayer Collection, Vienna
NORTHERN ITALIAN, PROBABLY PADUA, CIRCA 1450-1480
PLAQUETTE WITH THE VIRGIN AND CHILD SURROUNDED BY ANGELS
bronze, in an associated Italian, early 16th-century cypress wood frame with Christ as the Man of Sorrows
bronze: 8.7 by 6.8cm., 3½ by 2¾in.
frame: 20.5 by 13.5cm., 8 by 5⅜in.
August von Miller zu Aichholz (1829-1899), Vienna;
Robert Rudolf Theodor Mayer (1874-1974), Vienna;
thence by descent to the present owner
While Rossi (op. cit.) attributed this beautiful model to the Ferrarese sculptor Domenico di Paris (fl. 1443–1501), Warren (op. cit.) has more recently argued for a Paduan origin.
RELATED LITERATURE
F. Rossi, La Collezione Mario Scaglia: Placchette, vol. 1, Bergamo, 2011, no. VI.3; J. Warren, The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Italian Sculpture, London, 2016, vol. 1, pp. 185-187, no. 46