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VENETIAN, MID-16TH CENTURY

A table bell

    Price Realised GBP 2,500
    Estimate
    GBP 1,500 - GBP 2,500
    VENETIAN, MID-16TH CENTURY

    A table bell

    Price Realised GBP 2,500
    Price Realised GBP 2,500
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    VENETIAN, MID-16TH CENTURY
    A table bell
    damascened and engraved bronze; with armourials to either side showing the Scales of Justice, inscribed in Latin ‘BONIS NOCET QUIS PEPER CERIT MALIS’ (‘He Hurts the Good Who Spares the Bad’), dated to the inner rim ‘1559’, with original bronze clapper

    41⁄2 in. (11.5 cm.) high; 3 in. (8 cm.) diameter

    Provenance
    With Daniel Katz Ltd., London, early 1980s.
    Michael and Jane Dunn, New York.
    Frank Cowan, New York, 1990s and sold by his widow to
    Ross Levett, Maine, USA.
    A private collection, USA, where acquired by the present owner, 2008.
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