ITALIAN RENAISSANCE PLAQUETTES
MODERNO. A gilt bronze Pax cast with a plaquette of the dead Christ supported by the Virgin and St. John, framed by Corinthian pilasters, inscribed above and below V.B. Maria Cancettio (the conception the Blessed Virgin Mary), the lunette above with of the Resurrection, 16th century, good cast with well preserved gilding.
MODERNO . [...]

A BRESCIAN IRON SCENT BOX of oblong octagonal shape, pierced, chased and embossed decoration of scrolling foliage, the hinged lid with a central medal-lion containing a dove within scrolling branches, (8.8cm.) early 18th century.
Provenance: From the Collection Adelman, Wurzburg, 1888.
AN ITALIAN CUIR BOUILLI ET CISELE LEATHER CASE, of tapering cylindrical form, in two parts complete [...]

MEDIEVAL WORKS OF ART
A MINIATURE BYZANTINE GOLD PLAQUE, of circular form, bearing an image in cloisonne enamel of the bust of the Virgin supporting in her hands a dies containing the head and Shoulders of Christ Emmanuel, to either side an abbreviated Greek inscription reading ‘Mother of God’, some of the closings damaged and lacking [...]

GOTHIC AND RENAISSANCE SCULPTURE
A MARBLE GROUP of the Virgin and Child in gothic Style, she stands holding the Child (head lacking) in her left arm, the Child reaching to touch the dove held in the Virgin’s right hand, the Virgin’s drapery falling in elegant v-shaped folds to her feet, high (82.5cm.), the whole weathered, broken [...]

PLAQUETTES, BRONZE PLAQUE, IVORY FIGURES, CRUCIFIX FIGURES
A SOUTH GERMAN BRONZE PLAQUETTE of the anointing of David, after Hansjamnitzer, in gilt bronze floral frame.
A SPANISH BRONZE RELIEF of St. Sebastian shown pierced by seven arrows, tied to a tree, his helmet and breastplate on the ground on either side of him, early 17th Century.
AN ITALIAN BRONZE [...]

BAROQUE SCULPTURE
A NETHERLANDISH WHITE MARBLE GROUP of Leda and the Swan, the voluptuous naked heroine with a pearl diadem in her hair, from which a veil descends to her hips, fondling the swan who stands beside her, his left wing enfolding her buttocks, first half 17th Century.
See the exhibition Catalogue ‘La Sculpture au Siecle de [...]