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Period: 16th Century
September
By Hans Bol
Located in Chicago, IL
engraving and etching by A. Collaert after Hans Bol Watermark: Letter P (Briquet 8718, Grevenbroich 1572)
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16th Century Landscape Prints

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Engraving

Two Trophies With a Cuirass Lower Left
By Enea Vico
Located in New York, NY
Enea Vico (1523-1567) engraving, Two Trophies With a Cuirass Lower Left, 1550, Bartsch 449, with the name of the publisher Ant[onio] Lafreri at bottom, first state (of 2) before numb...
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16th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Engraving

Allegorical Figure, Holding a Ball
By Giorgio Mantovano Ghisi
Located in Chicago, IL
Provenance: Edouard Schultze (Lugt 906) References: Bartsch 34 Boorsch & Lewis 38 Notes: A fine impression of this engraving. Boorsch and Lewis state that this work dates from “the mid-1560s” and suggest that it was after a work by Giulio Romano...
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16th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Engraving

16th Century Agate Cameo Roman Charity Pendant
Located in Firenze, IT
Two-layered agate cameo, red and white, depicting Roman Charity on an amati background. Italy, 16th century H. 3.7 cm - L. 2.9 cm Gold setting, eagle's head hallmark, 19th century H....
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Antique 16th Century Italian Renaissance Pendant Necklaces

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Agate, 18k Gold, Yellow Gold

Elizabethan Burmese ruby Fleur-de-lis ring, circa 1575
Located in London, GB
Elizabethan Burmese ruby Fleur-de-lis ring. Set with five table cut natural unenhanced Burmese rubies in closed back quatre-foil settings, to an impressive fleur-de-lis design featur...
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Antique 16th Century Cocktail Rings

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Ruby, Gold, Yellow Gold

Four Senses: Touch, Sight, Smell, Hearing
By Hendrick Goltzius
Located in New York, NY
Hendrich Goltzius (1558-1607), after, engravings c. 1740, Four of the Five Senses, engraved by Elisabeth Marlie Lepicier (1714-1773), after engravings by Jan Saenredam (1565-1607). R...
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16th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Engraving

Julius Caesar on Horseback
By Antonio Tempesta
Located in New York, NY
Provenance: Private Collection, South America Antonio Tempesta began his career in Florence, working on the decoration of the Palazzo Vecchio under the direction of Giorgio Vasari. He was a pupil first of Santi di Tito...
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16th Century Old Masters Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

A 16th century agate intaglio of Gaius Mucius Scaevola
Located in London, GB
A 16th century Italian agate intaglio depicting Gaius Mucius Scaevola, the oval shaped agate measuring approximately 1.9 x 1.6cm, depicting Scaevola on a standing position with his r...
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Antique 16th Century Classical Roman Signet Rings

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Agate, 10k Gold

An Ottoman Empire Damascus square tile late 16th century
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
An Ottoman Empire Damascus square tile, late 16th century, the glazed fritware body painted in underglaze green, blue, turquoise and black with four lobed medallions and four split p...
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Antique 16th Century Syrian Architectural Elements

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Ceramic

A panel of two square Ottoman Empire ‘Dome of the Rock’ tiles
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A panel of two square Ottoman Empire ‘Dome of the Rock’ tiles, painted in underglaze cobalt blue, black and apple green with a trellis of split and winged palmettes with cloud-scroll...
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Antique 16th Century Syrian Architectural Elements

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Ceramic

A panel of four square Ottoman Empire ‘Dome of the Rock’ tiles
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A panel of four square Ottoman Empire ‘Dome of the Rock’ tiles, painted in underglaze cobalt blue with a trellis of split and winged palmettes with cloud-scroll collars, framed. Syrian, 16th century. 15 in square, framed 17 ½ in square. Provenance: Property of a private European collector. Footnote: This design was first seen on the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, which was tiled on the instructions of the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent around 1545. Soon after similar tiles appeared on several building in Aleppo, most notably Bait Jumbiatt, the Ummayad Mosque and the Khosrowiyya Mosque, as well as numerous private houses. There are also near identical tiles in the Ramanazoglu Mosque in Adana (Turkey). See Arthur Miler ‘Damascus Tiles...
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Antique 16th Century Syrian Architectural Elements

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Ceramic

Unique 16th Century Antique Fireback, Biblical Wine Feast
Located in Haarlem, Noord-Holland
Beautifully decorated antique fireback or "ofenplatte". This used to be one of the sides of an antique stove made from several decorated firebacks. B...
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Antique 16th Century European Gothic Fireplaces and Mantels

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Iron

Allegory of Fortune
Located in New York, NY
Provenance: S. Spinelli Collection, Florence; their sale, Galleria Pesaro, Milan, July 11-14, 1928, lot 112 (unsold); reoffered Galleria Luigi Bellini, Florence, April 23-26, 1934, lot 132, as manner of Baldassare Peruzzi Dr. Giacomo Ancona, Florence, 1930s, and after 1939, San Francisco; thence by descent to his son: Mario Ancona, San Francisco; thence by descent to his children: Mario Ancona III and Victoria Ancona, San Francisco, until 1995; thence to: Phyllis Ancona Green, widow of Mario Ancona, Los Angeles (1995-2012) Literature: Donato Sanminiatelli, Domenico Beccafumi. Milan 1967, p. 170 (under paintings attributed to Beccafumi) Among the precious survivors of Renaissance secular paintings for domestic interiors are several unusual and particularly attractive panels painted in Siena at the end of the fifteenth and beginning of the sixteenth centuries. These paintings depict exemplary figures from antiquity—heroes or heroines, as well as allegorical, literary, and mythological figures. For the most part, these panels have survived in groups of three, although it is possible that some of these works were painted either as part of larger series or as individual projects. One such trio by Beccafumi consists of two paintings now at the National Gallery, London (Marcia and Tanaquil) and a third in the Galleria Doria-Pamphilj, Rome (Cornelia). These were commissioned around 1517–1519 for the bedroom of Francesco di Camillo Petrucci in Siena and were most likely placed together as elements in the wall decoration (spalliere) or installed above the back of a bench or cassapanca. Another, earlier (ca. 1495–1500), set of three—Guidoccio Cozzarelli’s Hippo, Camilla, and Lucretia (Private Collection, Siena) survives with its original wooden framework—a kind of secular triptych. Judith, Sophonisba, and Cleopatra in the collection of the Monte dei Paschi, Siena, are by an anonymous artist close to Beccafumi called the “Master of the Chigi-Saracini Heroines.” Girolamo di Benvenuto’s Cleopatra, Tuccia, and Portia are dispersed (homeless, Prague, Chambery), and Brescianino’s Faith, Hope, and Charity are in the Pinacoteca Nazionale in Siena. The present painting first appeared in the Spinelli sale in Florence in 1934, at which time it was sold with two panels of identical size and format. Each was catalogued as being by the “manner of Baldassare Peruzzi” and of unidentified subject. Of these, the painting depicting a male figure turned to the right has recently reappeared in a private Italian collection, while the location of the third work, portraying a cloaked figure turned three-quarters left, remains unknown. Our panel depicts the allegorical figure of Fortune. Here she is represented in typical fashion as a nude female figure balanced on a wheel (sometimes called the Rota Fortunae), her billowing drapery indicating that she is as changeable as the wind. The appearance of the Virgin and Child in the cloud at the upper right is an unusual addition to the iconography. The subjects of the two pendant male...
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16th Century Old Masters Paintings

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Oil, Panel

Portrait of an Artist (possibly a Self-Portrait)
Located in New York, NY
Provenance: Bradley Collection. Private Collection, Upperville, Virginia. Literature: Katlijne van der Stighelen and Hans Vlieghe, Rubens: Portraits of Unidentified and Newly Identified Sitters painted in Antwerp, Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, vol. 19, pt. 3, London and Turnhout, 2021, under cat. no. 189, p. 161, and fig. 75. This painting had previously been considered to be by an anonymous Tuscan painter of the sixteenth century in the orbit of Agnolo Bronzino. While the painting does in fact demonstrate a striking formal and compositional similarity to Bronzino’s portraits—compare the nearly identical pose of Bronzino’s Portrait of a Young Man in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Fig. 1)—its style is completely foreign to Italian works of the period. That it is painted on an oak panel is further indication of its non-Italian origin. This portrait can in fact be confidently attributed to the Antwerp artist Huybrecht Beuckelaer. Huybrecht, the brother of Joachim Beuckelaer, has only recently been identified as the author of a distinct body of work formerly grouped under the name of the “Monogrammist HB.” In recent studies by Kreidl, Wolters, and Bruyn his remarkable career has been delineated: from its beginnings with Joachim in the workshop of Pieter Aertsen; to his evident travels to Italy where, it has been suggested, he came into contact with Bronzino’s paintings; to his return to Antwerp, where he seems to have assisted Anthonis Mor in painting costume in portraits; to his independent work in Antwerp (where he entered the Guild of Saint Luke in 1579); and, later to his career in England where, known as “Master Hubberd,” he was patronized by the Earl of Leicester. Our painting was recently published by Dr. Katlijne van der Stighelen and Dr. Hans Vlieghe in a volume of the Corpus Rubenianum, in which they write that the painting “has a very Italian air about it and fits convincingly within [Beuckelaer’s] oeuvre.” Stighelen and Vlieghe compare the painting with Peter Paul Ruben’s early Portrait of a Man, Possibly an Architect or Geographer in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in which the sitter holds a compass and wears a similarly styled doublet (Fig. 2). Huybrecht both outlived and travelled further afield than his brother Joachim, who made his career primarily in Antwerp. Whereas Joachim was the main artistic inheritor of their uncle and teacher, Pieter Aertson, working in similar style and format as a specialist in large-scale genre and still-life paintings, Huybrecht clearly specialized as a painter of portraits and was greatly influenced by the foreign artists and works he encountered on his travels. His peripatetic life and his distinctly individual hand undoubtedly contributed to the fact his career and artistic output have only recently been rediscovered and reconstructed. His periods abroad seem to have overlapped with the mature phase of his brother Joachim’s career, who enrolled in the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke much earlier than his brother, establishing himself as an independent painter in 1560. Joachim’s activity was confined to the following decade and half, and his latest work dates from the last year of his life, 1574. Our portrait was likely produced in the late 1560s, a dating supported by the dendrochronological investigation performed by Dr. Peter Klein, which established that it is painted on an oak panel with an earliest felling date of 1558 and with a fabrication date of ca. 1566. This painting presents a portrait of an artist, almost certainly Huybrecht’s self-portrait. The young sitter is confidently posed in a striking patterned white doublet with a wide collar and an abundance of buttons. He stands with his right arm akimbo, his exaggerated hands both a trademark of Huybrecht and his brother Joachim’s art, as well as a possible reference to the “hand of the artist.” The figure peers out of the painting, interacting intimately and directly with the viewer, as we witness him posed in an interior, the tools and results of his craft visible nearby. He holds a square or ruler in his left hand, while a drawing compass...
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16th Century Old Masters Paintings

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Oil, Panel

Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist
Located in New York, NY
Inscribed, reverse: Fr Brina Provenance: Private Collection, New Jersey. Francesco Brina was one of the “Studiolo” painters, responsible for the panel of Neptune and Amphitrite in F...
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16th Century Old Masters Paintings

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Oil, Wood Panel

Late 16th Century White on Blue Grey Shell Cameo of Cupid and the dog Ring
Located in Firenze, IT
The oval white on blue grey shell carved to depict the classic scene of a winged Cupid playing with a dog. Later 18Kt yellow gold mounting Size of the top: 30.8 mm high Weight: 1...
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Antique 16th Century Italian Signet Rings

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18k Gold, Yellow Gold

Corinthian Capital
Located in New York, NY
Limestone, carved on four sides with acanthus and scrolls, with traces of primer.
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Antique 16th Century French Architectural Elements

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Limestone

Collection of 16th Century Chinese Mirrors
Located in Mjöhult, SE
Collection of 16th century Chinese bronze mirrors. Ming Dynasty ca 1550, China.
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Antique 16th Century Chinese Ming More Mirrors

Materials

Bronze

The Veronica of the Virgin (Verónica de la Virgen)
Located in New York, NY
The panel has been attributed both to Joan de Joanes and his son Vicente Macip Comes (Valencia, ca. 1555 – 1623). Provenance: Private Collection, England, by 1886 (according to stencils on the reverse) Private Collection, New Jersey, until 2010 The Veil of Veronica, often called the Sudarium, is one of the most important and well-known relics of Christ. According to legend, Veronica offered Christ her veil as he carried the cross to his crucifixion. He wiped his face with the veil, which left the cloth miraculously imprinted with his image. Depictions of Christ’s face on a veil, or simply images that focused in on Christ’s face, were treasured objects of religious devotion. The popularity of this format also inspired similar images of the face of the Virgin. The iconographic type of the present painting is known as the Veronica of the Virgin, which was especially favored in late medieval and early Renaissance Spain. Distinct from the images of the suffering Christ, the Veronica of the Virgin is based on the legend that Saint Luke painted a portrait of Mary from life. Although scholars have sometimes mistaken them for portraits of Queen Isabella I of Castile (known as Isabel la Católica) or as a depiction of Saint Maria Toribia (known as María de la Cabeza, or, Mary of the Head), paintings like this one were clearly intended as images of the Virgin in the style of Saint Luke’s lost portrait. The Veronica of the Virgin was especially popular in Valencia, and depictions of this subject produced there all stem back to one visual prototype: a Byzantine image in the city’s cathedral (Fig. 1). This early treatment of the Veronica was given to the cathedral in 1437 by Martin the Humane, King of Aragon and Valencia, who promoted religious veneration of the Veronica of the Virgin as part of the celebration of the Immaculate Conception of Mary. This devotion spread throughout Martin’s kingdom and particularly took hold in Valencia, where the Byzantine image resided. The image, which is displayed in a gold reliquary...
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16th Century Old Masters Paintings

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Oil, Wood Panel

Very Rare Ming Dynasty Porcelain Ewer with Ottoman Gem-Set Tombak Mounts
Located in London, GB
Very rare Ming dynasty porcelain ewer with ottoman gem-set tombak mounts Chinese and Turkish, 16th/17th century Measures: Tombak: height 20cm,...
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Antique 16th Century Chinese Ming Bottles

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Multi-gemstone, Brass

English Renaissance Framed Crest Embroidery
Located in New York, NY
English Renaissance embroidery of a crest having a crown top mounted on a red velvet background in an ebonized wood frame.
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Antique 16th Century English Northern Renaissance Decorative Art

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Thread, Velvet, Wood

!6th c. VIEW OF FLORENCE
By Sebastian Münster
Located in Santa Monica, CA
SEBASTIAN MUNSTER (1488-1552) FLORENCZ - -- FIGUR UND GELEGENHEIT DER EDLEN UND HOCH BERHÜMPTEN STATT FLORENTZ. . c 1550 (Fauser, #3925.) Woodcut f...
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16th Century Old Masters Landscape Prints

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Woodcut

Renaissance C.1580 Gilded Silver Niello Signet Ring
Located in Chicago, IL
This unique, museum quality partially gilded silver and niello Renaissance signet ring is probably Italian, circa 1580. The engraved signet conceals a double meaning: a grotesque fac...
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Antique 16th Century Renaissance Signet Rings

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Silver, Niello

A Panel of Ornament, Putti Standing on Cornucopia in Lower Section
Located in Santa Monica, CA
MASTER OF THE DIE (Fl. 1530-6) A PANEL OF ORNAMENT - Putti Standing on Cornucopia in Lower Section after Perino Buonaccorsi (Italian Florence 150...
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16th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Engraving

Rare Antique Needlework Rug with Polylobed Medallion and Confronting Leopards
Located in Milan, IT
This magnificent blue ground early Arraiolos needlepoint displays a polylobed central medallion clearly inspired by the so called ‘Star Variant’ 15th/16th Century Ushak rugs, being p...
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Antique 16th Century Portuguese Moorish Western European Rugs

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Wool

16th Century Chinese Standing Bronze Figure of a Nobleman
Located in Hudson, NY
Hongzhi Period (1487 - 1505) sculpture of an important man, possibly Confucius. Comes with box.
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Antique 16th Century Chinese Metalwork

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Bronze

HERCULES FIGHTS ADRAGON center, ACHELOUS CARRYING OFF DEIANEIRA left
By Giulio Bonasone
Located in Santa Monica, CA
GIULIO BONASONE (Italian 1500/10-1574) HERCULES FiGHTS ADRAGON center, ACHELOUS CARRYING OFF DEIANEIRA left 1531–76 (Bartsch XV.157.178; Massari 1983, no.230) Engraving. Letter...
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16th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Engraving

Italian Renaissance Carved Wall Plaque
Located in New York, NY
Italian Renaissance (16th Century) oak carved relief wall plaque of religious figure with children.  
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Antique 16th Century Italian Renaissance Wall-mounted Sculptures

Materials

Oak

Post Medieval Signet Ring, circa 16th-17th Century
Located in London, GB
Post Medieval signet ring. Composed of an oval plaque featuring a finely engraved image of a thistle with stalk and leaves, the initials 'LI' in engraved...
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Antique 16th Century Medieval Signet Rings

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Yellow Gold

Japanese Two Panel Screen Suiboku Landscape in Sesshu Style
Located in Hudson, NY
Suiboku is a style of ink painting that is reminicent of the way calligraphers paint. Masterfully painted Muromachi Period (1336-1573) painting, unique in style and strength for the period with very bold lines. Sesshu Toyo...
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Antique 16th Century Japanese Paintings and Screens

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Silk, Paper

Tudor Gold Spinel Set Ring, English, circa 16th Century
Located in London, GB
Tudor gold spinel set ring. Set to centre with a rectangular table cut red spinel in a closed back rubover setting with an approximate weight of 1.00 carats...
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Antique 16th Century British Tudor Solitaire Rings

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Spinel, Gold

A Musical Party
By German School
Located in New York, NY
Provenance: Dr. George Hamilton, Massachusetts; and by descent. Private Collection, Ohio, until 2021. Exhibited: (Possibly) Clark Art Institute, Massachusetts (according to a handwritten inscription on the reverse). This drawing by an anonymous, 16th-century German hand presents a delightful scene of nymphs—mostly nude but some draped with cloth—making music in an outdoor setting. The composition is executed within a roundel and centers on the harpsichord played by the figure seen from behind. She is accompanied by a host of other instruments, including horns, a harp, and a lira da gamba played by figures gathered nearby, several of which are positioned along the curved edges of the visual field. Two satyrs observe the merrymaking—one leans on the harpsichord while the other holds aloft a cup, presumably of wine, adding a bacchic element to the revelry. The drawing was previously owned by Dr. George Hamilton, scholar of modern art and Director of the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown (1966–1977). Hamilton played...
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16th Century Old Masters Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink, Pen

The Gigantas Pendant
Located in London, GB
The Gigantas Pendant, an important late 16th century Renaissance baroque pearl, gold and enamelled pendant, with later alterations, depicting one of the Greek gigantes, wearing the i...
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Antique 16th Century German Renaissance Brooches

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Diamond, Natural Pearl, Ruby, Gold, 14k Gold, 22k Gold, Enamel, Yellow Gold

Antique Late 16th Century German Silver Signet Ring
Located in Firenze, IT
Centrally set with a plaque with with traces of gilding engraved to depict a monogram surmounted and enclosed by a floral decoration, at the top a dancing figure with a ribbon. Mou...
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Antique 16th Century German Signet Rings

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Sterling Silver, Silver

Set of Four Cast and Turned Brass Ottoman Candlesticks
Located in London, GB
Set of four cast and turned brass ottoman candlesticks Turkish, 16th century Measures: Largest: Height 41.5cm, diameter 24cm Smallest: Height 28...
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Antique 16th Century Turkish Islamic Candlesticks

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Brass

The Flight into Egypt
Located in New York, NY
Inscribed: 3. una Madonna che va in Egitto, verso, and Madonna che va in Egitto, recto Provenance: Private Collection, UK, since 1999 This expressive and boldly executed drawing is the work of Luca...
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16th Century Old Masters Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Chalk, Ink, Pen, Paper

Portrait of a Man
Located in New York, NY
Provenance: with Leo Blumenreich and Julius Böhler, Munich, 1924 Dr. Frederic Goldstein Oppenheimer (1881-1963), San Antonio, Texas; by whom given to: Abraham M. Adler, New York, un...
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16th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Panel

The Assumption of the Virgin
Located in New York, NY
Provenance: Unidentified collector’s mark “D.G.R,” lower right (Lugt 757b) Wilhelm Suida (1877–1959), New York; by descent to: Robert L. and Bertina Suida Manning, New York, until 1996 Private Collection, USA This impressive drawing of the Assumption of the Virgin is the work of the Genoese artist Giovanni Battista Paggi. The son of a nobleman, Paggi received a humanist education and was a self-taught artist. According to Paggi’s first biographer, Raffaele Soprani, it was only after encountering Luca...
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16th Century Old Masters Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink, Pen

Gustavian Console Table Produced in Sweden, Probably in Stockholm
Located in Limhamn, Skåne län
Gustavian console table. Produced in Sweden, probably in Stockholm. Gilt wood with rich carvings with typical attributes including fluted legs, fleurons, leaves and foot cross with ...
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Antique 16th Century Swedish Gustavian Console Tables

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Giltwood

AMERICAE - Sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio
By Abraham Ortelius
Located in Santa Monica, CA
ABRAHAM ORTELIUS (1527 - 1598) AMERICAE SIVE NOVI ORBIS, NOVA DESCRIPTIO, 1587 (1603) (Van Den Broecke 11, Burden 64; Schwartz & Ehrenberg 69) Engraving. A very good, well printed...
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16th Century Old Masters Landscape Prints

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Engraving

Ming Dynasty Porcelain Shou Lau Figure
Located in New York, NY
Asian Chinese (Ming Dynasty-Circa 1500) blue & green porcelain Shou Lau seated figure with oversize head (symbolism of longevity & luck) on a base suppo...
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Antique 16th Century Chinese Chinese Export Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Porcelain

Pair of Antique French Sheet Music Veneered Obelisks
Located in New York, NY
Pair of French 1940s-style antique (16th century) vellum veneered obelisks with caligraphy music manuscript notation (priced as pair).
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Antique 16th Century Mid-Century Modern Obelisks

Victorian Bronze 16th Century Man
Located in New York, NY
French Victorian bronze figure of a 16th century man holding a quill and book with a guitar on base (signed).      
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Antique 16th Century French Victorian Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Italian Renaissance Chair
Located in New York, NY
Over the course of five centuries of use, this Italian Renaissance walnut chair has acquired a rich patina. Its austere form is relie...
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Antique 16th Century Italian Renaissance Chairs

Materials

Walnut

16th Century Japanese Sculpture of a Buddhist Tenbu
Located in Hudson, NY
16th century Japanese sculpture of a Buddhist Tenbu, Late Momoyama period (1333-1598) sculpture dated "Bunroku 3", or 1594, in ink on the back. T...
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Antique 16th Century Japanese Sculptures and Carvings

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Metal, Gold Leaf

Joseph and Potiphar's Wife
Located in New York, NY
Provenance: Palazzo Pisani at San Stefano, Venice Mrs. F. Craighead (possibly Mrs. Fay Stinson Craighead, Evansville, Indiana) Sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 7 June 1978, lot 310, as Bonifazio Veronese Daniel M. Friedenberg, New York, until 2011; and by descent to: Russell Friedenberg, until 2014 Literature: Giuseppe Pavanello, Gli Inventari di Pietro Edwards nella Biblioteca del Seminario Patriarcale di Venezia, Venice 2006, pp. 132, 140, as no. 10 in Pietro Edwards’ inventory of the Palazzo Pisani: “Giuseppe che fugge dalla moglie di Pitifarre” by Bonifacio Veronese. Philip Cottrell and Peter Humfrey, Bonifacio de’ Pitati, (forthcoming), cat. no. 166h. Antonio Palma is the least well-known member of the illustrious Palma family of Venetian painters of the 16th century. He was the nephew of Jacopo Palma—Palma il Vecchio—and upon his uncle’s death in 1528, he began to work with Palma Vecchio’s principal student and the inheritor of the elder artist’s studio, Bonifazio de’ Pitati (Bonifazio Veronese). Antonio worked with Bonifazio as his principal assistant and right-hand man until Bonifazio’s death in 1553, after which he continued his independent career. He married a niece of his master, and their second son, Jacopo, born in 1648, would achieve fame as Palma il Giovane...
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16th Century Renaissance Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Pair of Italian Renaissance Bronze Candlesticks
Located in Greenwich, CT
Very good pair of 16th century Italian bronze candlesticks of unusually bold design, turned balustrade form and good scale. One pricket lacking.      
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Antique 16th Century European Renaissance Table Lamps

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Bronze, Wrought Iron

16th Century School of Fontainebleau Engraving
By Master F.G.
Located in New York, NY
This 16th century French engraving illustrates an episode in the Trojan War – although the actual one illustrated is in question. According to recent scholarship, it depicts the corp...
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Antique 16th Century French Renaissance Prints

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Paper

Early English or Scottish Turner's Chair
Located in Greenwich, CT
Rare Elizabethan or Jacobean turned fruitwood and ash three legged chair, often referred to as a "thrown" chair because all the parts are turned on a lathe (think thrown as on a pott...
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Antique 16th Century Scottish Elizabethan Corner Chairs

Materials

Ash, Fruitwood

Study after Michelangelo’s “The Last Judgment”
By Michelangelo Buonarroti
Located in New York, NY
Italian School, 16th Century Provenance: Private Collection, New York This intriguing drawing is a study by an anonymous 16th-century Italian artist after a vignette in Michelangelo’s fresco of The Last Judgement in the Sistine Chapel. The altar wall of the Sistine Chapel was already richly decorated when Pope Clement VII commissioned Michelangelo to paint his Last Judgment...
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16th Century Old Masters Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Gouache

Two Fools (or Fool and Foolish Woman)
By Hans Sebald Beham
Located in New York, NY
Hans Sebald Beham (1500-1550), an engraving after Beham’s Two Fools (or Fool and Foolish Woman), engraving, c 1540, a copy or impression in reverse of Pauli 215, Bartsch 213, the cop...
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16th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints

Materials

Engraving

English Renaissance Carved Oak Paneled Room
Located in New York, NY
English Renaissance (Tudor-16th Century) oak carved linen fold design paneled room with a mantle, overmantle carving and a Pair of spindle design open doo...
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Antique 16th Century British Gothic Architectural Elements

Materials

Oak

Flora with her Nymphs, after Giulio Romano
Located in New York, NY
GIULIO BONASONE (1510-1576) AFTER GIULIO ROMANO (CIRCA1499-1546) Flora with her Nymphs engraving, circa1531-50, on laid paper, watermark Two crossed Arro...
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16th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Engraving

Kermess
By Hans Bol
Located in Chicago, IL
2nd State Watermark: Hand with Cuff and Flower (close to Briquet 11467)
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16th Century Landscape Prints

Materials

Etching

Sounding the Hunt in the Morning
By Hans Bol
Located in Chicago, IL
2nd state Watermark: Hand with Cuff and Flower (close to Briquet 11467)
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16th Century Landscape Prints

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Etching

River Scene with Village and Church
By Hans Bol
Located in Chicago, IL
A very fine, well contrasted impression of the 1st State, before the addition of the number, present when the work later was included in Bol’s River Series.
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16th Century Landscape Prints

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Etching

Orpheus and the Animals, A Study after an Ancient Bas-Relief
Located in New York, NY
Inscribed “55” and “218” in the lower right Watermark: Heawood 1351 Laid down on historic Cassiano Del Pozzo mount (Mount Type A, 531 x 402 mm) Provenance: Commissioned by Cassiano dal Pozzo (1588–1637) for his Museo Cartaceo (Paper Museum) and kept in the library of his palazzo, via dei Chiavari, Rome Transferred with the entire dal Pozzo collection by fidecommesso to his younger brother, Carlo Antonio dal Pozzo (1606–1689); by descent to his second son: Gabriele dal Pozzo (d. 1695); by descent to his wife: Anna Teresa Benzoni and after her remarriage in 1697, the Marchesa Lancellotti de’ Ginnetti (d. 1736); by descent to their son: Cosimo Antonio dal Pozzo (d. 1740); by whom sold with the Dal Pozzo library in 1703 to: Pope Clement XI for the Vatican Library; by whom transferred as part of the Museo Cartaceo in January 1714 to his nephew: Cardinal Alessandro Albani (1692–1779), Palazzo ‘alle Quattro Fontane’ in Rome; by whom sold in 1762 to: James Adam, agent for the British Royal Librarian Richard Dalton (1715–1791) King George III of England, Buckingham House Among the sheets of the ‘Museo Cartaceo’ appropriated by Richard Dalton during a reorganization of the drawings, circa 1786-1788; his estate sale, Greenwood’s, London, 11-19 May 1791; where acquired by: John MacGowan...
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16th Century Baroque Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink, Pen

Japanese Wooden Buddhist Sculpture of Amida Nyorai, 16th Century
Located in Milano, IT
The Amitabha (Amida in Japanese) Buddha is shown standing with his hands forming the Amida raigo-in mudra. The face has a serene expression, with closed eyes under delicately arched brows and a severe face. The hair is arranged in rows of coils that also cover the "ushnisha", the protuberance on the head. The drapery is folded in elegant pleats falling from the shoulders to the feet. The antique sculpture is placed on a lotus flower which is located on a richly decorated base. Faith in Amida Buddha remained largely confined to a small segment of the Japanese population until the Kamakura Era (1185-1333) when it was popularized by new Pure Land sects committed to bringing Buddhism to the illiterate commoner. These sects expressed concern for the salvation of the ordinary person and stressed pure and simple faith over complicated rites and doctrines. Amida Nyorai...
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Antique 16th Century Japanese Sculptures and Carvings

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Wood

16th Century Germanic Parcel-Gilt Silver Filigree Spice Container
Located in New York, NY
Ball shaped, separating into two halves, the central detachable band chased with a crown flanked by Hebrew blessing of spices on a zig-zag ground, between applied ropework bands, on ...
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Antique 16th Century German Renaissance Religious Items

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Silver

1500s Elizabethan Sterling Silver Communion Chalice and Paten
By Robert Medley
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive, rare antique Elizabethan English sterling silver communion chalice and paten; an addition to our diverse religious silverware collection. This exceptional two piece antique Elizabethan sterling silver communion set consists of a chalice and paten/diskos. The chalice has a cylindrical tapering shaped form onto a plain knapped pedestal and spreading circular foot. The body of this sterling silver communion cup...
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Antique 16th Century English Elizabethan Sterling Silver

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Sterling Silver

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