Lot 41: [ ITALIAN MEDALS ]

ANTONIO MARESCOTTI (active 1444-1462) Borso d'Este (1413-71), Marquis of Ferrara, 1450, Duke of Modena and Reggio, 1452, first Duke of Ferrara, 1471, bronze medal, bust left in tall hat, rev., a unicorn dipping its horn into a stream, 64mm (Hill 82; Armand I, 28, 3), cast from the same model as the British Museum specimen (with signature removed from the reverse), a very fine old cast

Provenance: Morton & Eden, 27 June 2006, lot 372.