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Italy: Papal States, Alexander VIII, Ottoboni, 1700, a bronze medal by F. de St Urbain, bust left wearing mozetta, camauro and embroidered stole, rev. elevation of the Pope’s monumental tomb in St Peter’s, figures standing to the right, 65mm (Venuti XXI; Weber, Bauten Roms 361; Lincoln 1512; Ciech. 264; cf. Clifford 211). On a slightly impaired flan, otherwise good very fine (£70-90)

The figures, one of whom holds out the plans, may well be the designer, Carlo Enrico Sanmartino, explaining his work to Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni (who commissioned the tomb for his great-uncle) and others