Lot 75
75
A GILT-BRONZE PLAQUETTE OF AN ALLEGORICAL SCENE

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A GILT-BRONZE PLAQUETTE OF AN ALLEGORICAL SCENE
ATTRIBUTED TO ANDREA RICCIO

Possibly depicting Virtue overcoming Vice, with a naked boy watering the roots of a tree while standing over a crouching satyr
Some wear to gilding; small section missing from top, drill hole at bottom
2in. (4.9cm) diameter

Lot Essay

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
J. Pope-Hennessy, Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection, London, 1965, no. 224, p. 67, fig. 97