Lot 366: MATTEO DE' PASTI (c. 1420-1468) Sigismondo

MATTEO DE' PASTI (c. 1420-1468) Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta (1417-1468), Lord of Rimini and Fano (from 1432), bronze medal, dated 1446, bust left, rev., Fortitude seated left on throne, holding broken column, 44.4mm (Hill 181; Armand I, 20, 14), a very fine contemporary cast of good quality, with brown patina"

Ex Sternberg, auction 27, Zurich, 7 November 1994, lot 654; Peus, auction 332, Frankfurt, 23 October 1991, lot 809; formerly in the Max Rosenheim collection and given by him to the painter John Seymour Lucas R.A. (1848-1923). The medal is accompanied by a recessed card holder inscribed in ink on the reverse To Mr Seymour Lucas RA from Max Rosenheim.