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Auction: 390 - Renaissance Plaquettes and Commemorative Medals featuring the Neil A. Goodman Collection - e-Auction
Lot: 75

MATTEO DE' PASTI (active 1441-1467)
Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta (1417-1468), Lord of Rimini, Fano and Senigallia 1432. Medal, dated 1446. Bronze, 82mm. *SIGISMONDVS.PANDVLFVS.DE.MALATESTIS.S.RO.ECLESISE.C.GENERALIS, Bare-headed bust of Sigismondo in profile left, wearing surcoat over cuirass, rev. Fortitude seated on a seat the sides of which are formed by two elephants, holding a broken column in both hands, M.CCCCXLVI below. The elephant, with the motto "Elephas Indus culices non timet" (The Indian Elephant does not fear mosquitoes - Pliny) was a device of the Malatesta family. Hill 178; Armand I, 20, 11; Bargello I, 43; for another cast from the same model, cf. MFA Boston 23.206. Neatly pierced twice. An Extremely Fine contemporary cast. Ex Eugene V and Clare E Thaw, Millea Bros, Sale 81, Day 3 of 3, November 15-17, 2018, lot 3261 [part]. Eugene Thaw (1927-2018) was one of America's most distinguished gallerists, art historians and benefactors. https://www.mfa.org/collections/object/sigismondo-pandolfo-malatesta-240801.
From the Neil A. Goodman Collection

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