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Lot 373: ANDREA GUACIALOTI (1435-1495) Alfonso II of Aragon

Est: £400 GBP - £600 GBPSold:
Morton & EdenLondon, United KingdomMay 20, 2010

Item Overview

Description

ANDREA GUACIALOTI (1435-1495) Alfonso II of Aragon (1448-1495), Duke of Calabria (1458-1494), bronze medal on the recapture of Otranto from the Turks in 1481, bust facing three-quarters left, rev., Alfonso's triumphal return to Naples with Turkish captives in 1481, 59.5mm (Hill 745; Armand I, 48, 1; Pollard 237-238; Bargello 149), pierced, a very fine old cast"

Artist or Maker

Provenance

Ex Gutekunst collection, Hirsch XXVIII, Munich, 7 November 1910, lot 14; and Lepke auction, Berlin, 22 April 1913, lot 297 ( "Sammlung eines Engländers").

Auction Details

Coins, Renaissance Medals & Plaquettes

by
Morton & Eden
May 20, 2010, 12:00 AM GMT

Sotheby's 34-35 New Bond Street, London, LDN, W1S 2RT, UK