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Lot 463

A Decorative Cast-Iron Copy Of The Windsor Castle 'Cellini' Shield
19th Century In Mid-16th Century Style

1 December 2009, 14:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A Decorative Cast-Iron Copy Of The Windsor Castle 'Cellini' Shield
19th Century In Mid-16th Century Style

After the electrotype, of convex form, the outer surface coppered and decorated with scenes illustrating the history of Pompey and Caesar, divided by demi-figures and within borders of linked ovals, and with 'turned' border with domed imitation rivets (central boss replaced)
55 cm. diam.

Footnotes

A copy of the electrotype of this shield sold in the past at the Victoria & Albert Museum. See Bruno Thomas, 'Die Muenchner Waffenvorzeichnungen des Étienne Delaune und die Prukshilde Heinriches II. von Frankreich', Jahrbuch der Kunsthistorischen Sammlungen in Wien, 58 (1962), pp. 143-45, fig. 124

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