PAIR OF ITALIAN BRONZE FINIALS, AFTER LORENZO GHIBERTI
19TH CENTURY
£1,638
Auction: 15 JANUARY 2025 FROM 10:00 GMT
Description
dark brown patina, modelled with three faces of a man representing young adulthood, middle age, and old age (2)
Dimensions
17cm high
Provenance
Alfred Spero Collection;
Acquired 1965.
Footnote
Note: The present lot appears to be later copies of a model by Ghiberti, of which there are three known examples, one in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, one in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, and the final in the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich.