*Italy, Workshop of Guglielmo della Porta (c. 1514-77), The Pietà, bronze-gilt pax, the Virgin supporting the dead body of Christ, a ladder propped against the base of the cross in the background and with symbols of the Passion in the foreground; set within an integrally cast frame with cherub’s heads above and below, scrollwork and acanthus leaves on either side; the back with an affixed plate with traces of where a stand has been removed, 148 x 100mm (cf. Warren, Ashmolean, p. 805, fig. 299), slight wear to the gilding, an extremely fine contemporary cast of fine quality. Provenance: Cyril Humphris collection, Sotheby’s New York, 11 Jan. 1995, lot 289. For an article by M. Riddick on the attribution of this plaquette type to Jacob Cornelis Cobaert see https://renbronze.com/2017/07/16/a-renowned-pieta-by-jacob-cornelis-cobaert/ where the frame is compared to the work of Sebastiano Torrigiani, another of Guglielmo della Porta’s assistants.

Estimate: GBP 2000 - 3000