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Lot 250 THIS LOT IS SOLD WITHOUT RESERVE
A BRONZE FIGURE OF A BOY
AFTER GIANFRANCESCO RUSTICI, NORTH ITALIAN, MID-16TH CENTURY
Closed9 June 2010
Price Realised
USD 2,250
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COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
V. Avery, Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, London, 2002, no. 2.
The pose of this rough, but charming, small bronze almost exactly mirrors that of the Mercury Taking Flight attributed to Rustici originally in the Boscawen Collection and now in the Fitzwilliam, Cambridge (Avery, loc. cit.).
V. Avery, Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, London, 2002, no. 2.
The pose of this rough, but charming, small bronze almost exactly mirrors that of the Mercury Taking Flight attributed to Rustici originally in the Boscawen Collection and now in the Fitzwilliam, Cambridge (Avery, loc. cit.).