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From the private collection of a Canadian gentleman living in Essex, UK, formed since the 1920s-circa 1990.
Property of an Essex lady until the late 1990s; thence by descent.
From the private collection of an Essex gentleman since the late 1990s.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
Acquired on the UK art market in the 1970s-1990s.
Property of a Nottinghamshire, UK, gentleman.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
From Northern Europe.
Acquired from Coincraft, London, UK.
From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020), Buckinghamshire, UK; his collection of antiquities and natural history was formed since 1948; thence by descent.
Accompanied by a Coincraft certificate of authenticity.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
From the private collection of a S.W. London gentleman, acquired in the 1970s.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
From the London, UK, art market in the 1990s.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
Acquired on the London art market in the late 1980s-1990s.
From the family collection of an East London, UK, gentleman.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
From the private collection of a Canadian gentleman living in Essex, UK, formed since the 1920s-circa 1990.
Property of an Essex lady until the late 1990s; thence by descent.
From the private collection of an Essex gentleman since the late 1990s.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
From the private collection of a S.W. London gentleman, acquired in the 1970s.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
The celebrated equestrian monument to the warlord Bartolomeo Colleoni is a bronze statue at a height of 395 cm, without the base, by Andrea del Verrocchio, made between 1480 and 1488 and located in Venice in the Campo San Zanipolo. It is only the third known equestrian statue of the Renaissance, after the monument to Gattamelata by Donatello in Padua, from 1446-1453 and the statue of Nicolò III d'Este by Leon Battista Alberti (1451). In 1479, the Republic of Venice decreed the construction of an equestrian monument for the leader Bartolomeo Colleoni, who died in 1475, to be placed in Campo Santi Giovanni e Paolo. In 1480, it entrusted the task to Andrea Verrocchio, who began the work in his workshop in Florence. In 1481, the wax model was sent to Venice, where the lost-wax casting of the bronze took place. Andrea died in 1488 with the work unfinished and in his will he had named the Florentine Lorenzo di Credi as heir and executor of the unfinished work, but the Venetian Signoria preferred Alessandro Leopardi, a local artist. The reassignment was justified due to the fact that Lorenzo was essentially a painter: it was customary in a multipurpose workshop like Verrocchio's for students to acquire practice in different artistic techniques. Although Venice officially prohibited personal commemorative monuments, an exception was made for Bartolomeo Colleoni, who left a sum of money to the Republic on condition that a monument should be erected to his memory.
Acquired on the UK art market in the 1970s-1990s.
Property of a Nottinghamshire, UK, gentleman.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
From the private collection of a S.W. London gentleman, acquired in the 1970s.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
Found East Anglia, UK.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
From the collection of David Buxton (1910-2003), author of 'Travels in Ethiopia', 1949.
Ex central London gallery.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
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