Lot 223: [ ITALIAN MEDALS ]

CHARLES-JEAN FRANÇOIS CHÉRON (1635-1698) Pope Clement XI, Rospigliosi (1667-1669), large bronze medal cast to commemorate the restoration of the Ponte S. Angelo in Rome in 1669, CLEMENS IX PONT MAX AN III, bust right wearing camauro, mozetta and stole (possibly after drawings by Bernini or Maratta); signed on the truncation F CHERON F, rev., AELIO PONTE EXORNATO, the river-god Tiber reclining beside Romulus and Remus before a view of the Ponte S. Angelo with the newly completed statues of Angels with the Instruments of the Passion; a fame flying above; with incised signature on outer rim F CHERON, 98mm (Bonanni XIV; Lincoln 1281; Vannel/Toderi p. 19, fig. 4; Avery C, 'Soldani's Models for Medals and His Training', StHist 21, 15, fig. 6, illustrating the present example), pierced, with brown patina, extremely fine and a contemporary cast of very high quality

Provenance: Charles Avery collection, Morton & Eden, 11-12 June 2008, lot 465.