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47. Satirical Medal, c.1550
Bust of a man, left, caricatured as a satyr, wearing a cloak attached by a broach at his left shoulder.
A phallic satyr.
41 mm., bronze, cast.
Very fine, a good clean cast with a rich and attractive brown patina.
Sorry this item is sold.
References: Bargello III, 813; Raymond Waddington, Before Arcimboldo, Composite Portraits on Italian Medals, The Medal, Spring 1989, # 4, and pp. 12-23,
Notes: The traditional attribution of the sitter to Paolo Giovio, a biographer, historian and collector, is largely discounted, and it is now thought that the medal and its imagery represent prevailing tastes in mid- sixteenth-century Italy for satyrs in sculpture and the graphic arts.
This medal is a very good example of its kind, and has been in a Continental collection for some seventy years, having been purchased in 1933.
A comparable, if somewhat inferior, example, was sold by Christie's (London) as part of 'An Important Collection of Renaissance and Baroque Medals and Plaquettes' on 21 May 1996, Lot 158 (illustrated).
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