A BRONZE FIGURE OF A LIZARD

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A BRONZE FIGURE OF A LIZARD
IN THE PADUAN RENAISSANCE STYLE

----- 4½in. (11.4cm.) wide, on green marble rectangular plinth, black patina

Provenance

Count Sebastiano Barozzi, Venice, Italy

Lot Essay

This appears to be a surmoulage of one of the supposedly Paduan models of small fauna, which were traditionally used as paperweights.

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