After Annibale Fontana (1540-87), Hercules and Cerberus, bronze plaquette, Hercules, naked but for lion skin draped over shoulder, raising his club aloft to strike Cerberus; flanked by two trees, 88 x 134mm, a very fine contemporary cast (some file marks on reverse) See footnote to the previous lot. The scene on the present plaquette is taken from the engraved rock crystal in the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore (41.110). A similar piece in bronze is in the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, the gift of Leonard Baskin (NGA 110711).

Estimate: GBP 1500 - 2000