The Manny Davidson Collection: A Life in Treasures and Benevolence - Evening Sale

Circle of Giambologna (1529-1608), Florence, 17th century

Ostrich and Crane

Estimate

60,000 - 80,000 EUR

Lot Details

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Description

bronzes, dark brown patina; on patinated bronze socles

Ostrich: 38.5cm., overall; 15in.

Crane: 37.5cm., overall; 14¾in.

Socles: 10.5cm., 4in.

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Christie's London, 15 May 1984, lot 142;

With Galerie Kugel, Paris;

Acquired from the above, TEFAF, Maastricht, March 2014.

M. Leithe-Jasper, Renaissance Master Bronzes from the collection of the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, London, 1986, pp. 223-225, cat. 57;

S.O. Androsov, Museo Statale Ermitage La scultura italiana dal XIV al XVI secolo, Milan, 2017, pp. 77-78, nos. 63 and 64;

V. Avery, Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, London, 2002, pp. 70-73, cat. 3, fig. 1.

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