. De luxe illustrated catalogue of the treasures and antiquities illustrating the golden age of Italian art, belonging to the famous expert and antiquarian, Signor Stefano Bardini, of Florence, Italy;. attitudeof drawing his how. which he holds in his left hand and shootingan arrow with his right. iVcross his shoulder is a strap for hisquiver. On s(]uare chamfered wooden hase. By Jacopo Tattior Sansovino (1477-1.)70). II(i(/Iit. 7 iii(lic-i. AnotluT exani])K is in the lirrlin ^Iiimiiiii. Illustrjitcd. Cutiiloijuc,Plate VII. 103—Sixteenth Centuky Feokentine Bkonze Statuette by RUSTICI Figure of
. De luxe illustrated catalogue of the treasures and antiquities illustrating the golden age of Italian art, belonging to the famous expert and antiquarian, Signor Stefano Bardini, of Florence, Italy;. attitudeof drawing his how. which he holds in his left hand and shootingan arrow with his right. iVcross his shoulder is a strap for hisquiver. On s(]uare chamfered wooden hase. By Jacopo Tattior Sansovino (1477-1.)70). II(i(/Iit. 7 iii(lic-i. AnotluT exani])K is in the lirrlin ^Iiimiiiii. Illustrjitcd. Cutiiloijuc,Plate VII. 103—Sixteenth Centuky Feokentine Bkonze Statuette by RUSTICI Figure of ^Mercury, poised on one foot with the right handhfted high in the air. He wears the petasus, or winged cap,and tahn-ia, or wings, on his feet, but does not carry a cadu-ceus. On scpiare molded base. By Giovanni Francesco Rus-tici (1474-1544). Height, \ii\-2 inches. Sigiior Bardini ])oints out tlie differences between tliis statue andthe similar Mercury by Gian da Bologna. Rustici was a pupil, accoid-ing to Yasari, of Verrocchio and, without doubt, of Leonardo da modeled the group of St. John, the Levite and the Pharisee over thenorth door of the Florentine Baptistery. (lUiistrated). No. 103—Sixteenth Century Florentine Bronze StatuetteBY RusTici 104—(iR.^•;t0-Ro:\rAN Ukoxze Vase ok the Eighteenth IhxIv, with ineurved eyhiulrical iieek, molded rimand foot and mohled looped handle startin<4 from a wingedCrreeian sphinx mask, and having a satyrs head, with horns,pointed ears and beard, for a thnml)-piece. The shoulders aredecorated with raised fluting, below which is a band of incisedhoneysuckle ornamentation, the lip with a band of egg anddart patterning and the foot with a band of water-leaf orna-mentation. The surface is 2)artially covered with a crust dueto long burial, revealing a most beautiful greenish-blue patina. Height, 1 tl ^ inchfs. Sioiior piirtiiularly values this vasu, ])oiiitiiiir out witlia])probatioii its ux
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