Italy, Master IO FF, Ariadne on Naxos, bronze plaquette (c. 1480), Ariadne seated holding a rudder, flanked by, on the left, a satyr bearing a satyress on his shoulders and a male figure holding a standard stuck with animals’ heads, and on the right, a naked youth holding a prow aloft and a torch which is being lit by another youth, 57mm (Molinier 130; Bange 648; Kress 97, fig. 128; Bargello 122-5), cast on a thin flan with concentric circles incised on the reverse, pierced and the rim (and signature) flattened (probably from having been fitted into a frame), otherwise an extremely fine contemporary cast, brown patina Ex John R. Gaines collection, part 2, Morton & Eden, 8 December 2005, lot 53.

Estimate: GBP 1500-2000