ID 432799
Lot 27 | VENETIAN, MID-16TH CENTURY
Estimate value
£ 1 500 – 2 500
A table bell
damascened and engraved bronze; with armourials to either side showing the Scales of Justice, inscribed in Latin ‘BONIS NOCET QUIS PEPER CERIT MALIS’ (‘He Hurts the Good Who Spares the Bad’), dated to the inner rim ‘1559’, with original bronze clapper
41/2 in. (11.5 cm.) high; 3 in. (8 cm.) diameter
| Medium: | Bronze |
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| Art style: | Renaissance |
| Medium: | Bronze |
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| Art style: | Renaissance |
| Address of auction |
CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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