Flemish, late 17th / early 18th century
Allegorical figures of Justice and Temperance
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
a pair, bronze, mottled green-gold and red patina beneath dark brown lacquer
one inscribed DILIGITE/IVSTITIVM/OVI/IVDICATVS/TERRAM ; the other TEMERATIS/HOMNIBUS/LEX/DEVS, each with inscribed monogram DVA (?)
(2)
Private Collector, Maryland;
Christie's New York, 13 January 1993, lot 135;
Abbott Guggenheim Collection;
Sotheby's New York, The Abbott Guggenheim Collection, 27 January 2011, lot 473;
Where acquired.
M. H. Schwartz (ed.), European Sculpture from the Abbott Guggenheim Collection, New York, 2008, no.64, pp. 128-129.
A related pair of figures with inscriptions identifying them as Hope and Prudence are in the Saint Louis Art Museum (inv. no. .223:1945 and 224:1945).
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