Lot 51: A BRONZE HEAD OF BACCHUS

A BRONZE HEAD OF BACCHUS BY ANDREA RICCIO (c.1470-1532) AND WORKSHOP, CIRCA 1500-1520 On a modern octagonal siena marble plinth; with a dark brown patina rubbed to reveal a green-grey surface; with paper label inscribed 'C.I.N.O.A INTERNATIONAL ART TREASURES EXHIBITION VICTORIA & ALBERT MUSEUM 1962 EXHIBIT No. 614' 2¾ in. (6.8 cm.) high; 4¾ in. (11.6 cm.) high, overall

London, Victoria and Albert Museum, International Art Treasures Exhibiton, 1962, no. 614. On loan to the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 1999-2013.

L. Planiscig, Andrea Riccio, Vienna, 1927, p. 222. COMPARATIVE LITERATURE: D. Allen and P. Motture, Andrea Riccio, Renaissance Master of Bronze, 2008, fig. II.i, nos. 20, 21 and 24.

Collection of Luigi Grassi (d. 1937), Florence, by 1927. Michael Jaffe, CBE (1923-1997), and by descent.