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Premier Auction | Session II

Fri, May 17, 2019 09:00AM EDT
Lot 838

Early 18th Century Italian Escutcheon

Estimate: $1,500 - $2,500

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Coat of Arms for Francisco-Maria Maripetro and further inscribed in Latin in cartouche "Proctori Confratrisuo Optime Merita/CUM In Templi I Iuius Ornamento Etamplificati/Multorum Discrepantes Animos/UNO/ Prudentia Sua Composuerit Oraculo/Confratres Unanimes/In Auum Pincere" dated at bottom of cartouche "MDCCXX" (1720), possibly Venetian, oil on canvas, 45 x 38 in.; painted wood frame, 47 x 40-1/8 in.

, Provenance: Private Collection, Atlanta, Georgia

Condition

lined with coarse linen or burlap, craquelure, retains much of original tacking edge, abrasions, gold leaf accretion at edges, retouch affecting approximately 15% of surface; frame with abrasions

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