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Auction: 390 - Renaissance Plaquettes and Commemorative Medals featuring the Neil A. Goodman Collection - e-Auction
Lot: 70

CIRCLE OF MODERNO (1467-1528)
Samson Destroying the Temple of Dagon. Rectangular plaquette, Verona ca. 1500. Bronze, 60.5 x 50.7mm. Samson at left pulling on the pilaster of a two-storied building, bringing the whole structure tumbling down, nude figures running through the fallen masonry. Bange 2821; Bode 1279; Paoletti II, 2, pl.140; Venice Museo Corer 97. Other specimens are known in the Castello di Buonconsiglio [Trento], the Louvre, Trinity Fine Art [via Spink, January 24, 2008], and Rudolph Lepke's sale ("Englische Sammlung") Berlin [April 22-23, 1913, lot 648]
Red ink [Bosch] collection number "43249" on back with label "81". An Extremely Fine old cast. Balcis of Barcelona, by private treaty, October 29, 2014.
From the Neil A. Goodman Collection

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