Live Auction 8107Christie's Interiors
AN ITALIAN CANTED RECTANGULAR WOOD AND BRONZE MEDAL-MOUNTED CASKET
Lot 32

AN ITALIAN CANTED RECTANGULAR WOOD AND BRONZE MEDAL-MOUNTED CASKET

THE CASKET 19TH CENTURY, THE MEDALS 16TH CENTURY

Closed8 January 2013

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GBP 750

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AN ITALIAN CANTED RECTANGULAR WOOD AND BRONZE MEDAL-MOUNTED CASKET
THE CASKET 19TH CENTURY, THE MEDALS 16TH CENTURY
The casket with a hinged lid and oval relief of a battle scene, the body with four further circular medallions around the sides; on four ebonised wood bun feet
5 1/8 in. (13 cm.) high

Specialist note

The medals on the present casket are not related to one another but were probably in the collection of the person who commissioned the casket. On the lid is a lion hunt after Valerio Belli; the others represent Julius Caesar, Virtue Uncovered by Vice after the Pseudo-Fra Antonio da Brescia, Cacus Stealing the Oxen of Hercules after Moderno and an allegorical scene, possibly Bacchus and Ariadne, after the Master IOFF.