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A SET OF POLYCHROME TERRACOTTA PORTRAIT RELIEF TONDOS
NORTH ITALIAN, MID 16TH CENTURY
Depicting Roman emperors and potentates, the heads truncated at the neck and set within wreath-enclosed tondos on eight later canvas covered panels painted in grisaille with grotesques and arabesques (eleven in terracotta and two later in plaster, damages and repairs) -----all panels aproximately 18½ in. (47 cm.) high and
120 in. (304.8 cm.), 46 7/8 in. (119 cm.), 108 in. (274.4 cm.), 121 (306.9 cm.), 105 in. (266.8 cm.), 50 in. (127 cm.), 125 in. (321.6 cm.), and 117 (297.2 cm.)long (13)
Provenance
Professor Comm. Elia Volpi sale, American Art Association, New York, April 22, 1927, lot 438 (as part of a room)
William Randolph Hearst sale, Hammer Gallery, New York, 1941, lot 590-591 (as part of a room)
