Lot 47
47
A BRONZE PLAQUE OF HERCULES AND THE NEMEAN LION

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A BRONZE PLAQUE OF HERCULES AND THE NEMEAN LION
LATE 15TH/EARLY 16TH CENTURY, AFTER MODERNO

Hercules stands facing left wrestling the lion which he has lifted off the ground, with his bow and quiver having from a dead tree, within a narrow double border-2 7/8in. x 2¼in. (7.5cm. x. 5.6cm.)

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COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:

C. Avery, Plaquettes, Medals and Reliefs from the Collection L (ederer), London, 1985, no. 21, p. 51 (listing earlier literature and other examples)