. 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;. 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

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. 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;. 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 uxtrLiiuly heaiitirul slia])f, rt-tiffiit ducoratiou aiulsuperb patina. (Ilhistnifnl). No. lO-l— Bronze Vase of the Eighteenth Century

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