Manner of Moderno/Master of the Orpheus and Arion Roundels, Orpheus descending into Hades, bronze plaquette, Orpheus, his back turned, plays his viol as he enters the gates of hell, guarded by demons, 105.5mm (Kress 171, fig. 195; Lewis 140, IV, A, 2; Bange 471; Molinier 207), pierced, fine early cast with filed down sprue on reverse; and Mercury Reclining, bronze plaquette, 116mm (cf. Bange 410; Kress 121), ­pierced, old cast (2) Ex Alain Edrei (1931-2021) collection, Paris [inventory numbers 145 and 146 respectively in red on their reverses]; the first ex Adams collection, Bonham’s, 23 May 1996, lot 64; both ex Charles Avery collection, Morton & Eden, 11 June 2008, lot 380.

Estimate: GBP 600 - 800