FLORENCE, MID-16TH CENTURY

Details

A BRONZE RECLINING FEMALE FIGURE REPRESENTING PHILOSOPHY
FLORENCE, MID-16TH CENTURY
depicted nude, reclining with a book in her right hand, on an integrally cast plinth inscribed in relief 'PHILOSOPHIAE SIMVLACRVM' and stamped with the 'C'-couronné poinçon; on a later rectangular rouge griotte marble plinth
4 1⁄8 in. (10.5 cm.) high; 5 ¼ in. (13.5 cm.) high; 10 5⁄8 in. (27 cm.) wide, overall

Provenance

Alain Moatti, Paris, 1978,
Acquired from the above by the Blaquier-Arrieta Family.

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Lot Essay

Another version of this model with minor variations was sold at Sotheby's, London, 2 July 2019, lot 57. The C-couronnée poinçon was a tax mark employed between March 1745 and February 1749 on any alloy containing copper.

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