NORTH ITALIAN, CIRCA 1550

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03.07.2024 10:30UTC +01:00
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ID 1248254
Lot 155 | NORTH ITALIAN, CIRCA 1550
NORTH ITALIAN, CIRCA 1550
An elephant, probably the imperial elephant Suleiman the Magnificent
bronze; on a later wood base
6 ½ in. (16.5 cm) high; 7 7/8 in. (20 cm.) high, overall




Literature

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
G. Salmann, 'Real and mythological animals in bronze from the Renaissance to the Baroque, Part I' in Connaissance des Arts, Encyclopedia, p. 69, no. 7.
C. Ricci, Il Tempio Malatestiano, Milan / Rome, 1924, pp. 324-25, pl. 392.
L. Planiscig, Piccoli Bronzi Italiani del Rinascimento, Milan,1930, pl. 151.
H.R. Weihrauch, Europaische Bronzestatuetten, Brunswick, 1967, pp. 15-26, pl. 139.
P. Fusco, Summary Catalogue of European Sculpture in The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 1997, p. 66.
C. Avery in Scultura, Tomasso Brothers Fine Art, 2008, no. 7.
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