Italian, perhaps Padua, early 16th century

Eugene V. Thaw, New York;

his posthumous sale, Christie's New York, 30 October 2018, lot 275

The present casket design was highly popular in the Renaissance, with around fifty examples known today, including bronzes in the Louvre, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the Frick Collection. While the design may have originated in the late 15th century in Rome or Mantua, many of the bronze versions are likely to have been cast in Padua in the early sixteenth century, though probably not by a single workshop. For a comprehensive discussion of the model, see Warren, op. cit.

RELATED LITERATURE

J. Pope-Hennessy, Renaissance bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress collection, Washington, 1965, pp. 133-134, no. 491, figs. 478-480; W. D. Wixom (ed.), Renaissance bronzes from Ohio collections, exh. cat. Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 1975, no. 76; A. Radcliffe et al., The Thyssen-Bornemisza collection. Renaissance and later sculpture, London, 1992, pp. 194-203, no. 31; J. J. Warren, Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture: A Catalogue of the Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Vol. 1, Sculptures in Metal, Oxford, 2014, pp. 65-71, no. 16