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Tuesday 25 March 2025 e Wednesday 26 March 2025, 02:00 PM • Sarzana

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An appointment as archbishop, 1851

Estimate

€ 800 - 1.200

Sold

€ 1.500

The price includes buyer's premium

Information

Ancona
dimensions 18.5 x 27 cm.
Rare archbishop's appointment (galero hat with ten tassels) of Antonio Benedetto Antonucci. Beautiful red satin case (some parts are worn and missing) decorated with pierced silver mounts and engraved with floral motifs, it is presented as a book-like frame of great elegance, in the central part of the cover, a silver plaque with the archbishop's heraldic emblem, in the opposite part, the symbol of the city of Ancona. Inside, two scrolls, the first with a beautiful polychrome representation of the green ecclesiastical galero hat with ten tassels, in the central part a shield with sun and tree, the borders painted in blue and gold; the other with the inscription and the symbol of the city of Ancona, then a small extract: "Rei mvnicipalis cvratores in consilivm cvm convenissent verbaqve facta essent d n pii pont max principis benignissimi indvlgentia et avcatoritate nobis exoptantibvs postvlantibvs qve concessvm atqve adtribvtvm vti ad ornandam vitrvtem antonii benedicti antonvcci civitatis n episcopi qvem preacipvvm honorem amplissimo cviqve praestare possvmvs eidem ivre optimo decernamvs decretvm in haec verba perscribi placvit. .......". Finally, a sealed bull in a silver case with the motto of the city of Ancona "ANCON DORICA CIVITAS FIDEI" engraved on one side.