Andrea Briosco called Riccio (c. 1470-1532), The Entombment, large bronze plaquette, St. John the Evangelist flanked by Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus lower the body of Christ into the tomb surrounded by other figures with Mary Magdalene crouching on the ground at lower left and the fainting Virgin supported by a woman at lower right, 116 x 164mm (Molinier 221; Bange 358; Planiscig 228 and fig. 326; Scaglia VII.15, variant A, C.14, this piece; Allen and Motture, Andrea Riccio, Renaissance Master of Bronze, 2008, 28), early cast from an example with piercings at top corners and at bottom centre, very fine with dark patina. Provenance: Silvia Phyllis Adams collection, Bonham’s, 23 May 1996, lot 86.
Estimate: 4000 - 6000