Ink-pot

Object belonging

One's own

Category

Bronze sculpture

City

Rome

Location

Museo Nazionale del Palazzo di Venezia

Specific location

Room 17

Inventory

PV 10864

Material and technique

Bronze, brown-green patina, faint traces of black lacquer

Author

Northern Italian School (Venice?)

Dating

16th century

Dimensions

6.5 x 10.4 cm.

Origin

Auriti Collection (1963)

Image copyright

SSPSAE e per il Polo Museale della città di Roma

Short description

This work consists of a ring-like ink-pot. The upper lip is smooth and the frieze is decorated with palmettes, with two superimposed flowers, which are repeated three times. The ink-pot still retains the copper container for the ink.

Pietro Cannata

Bibliography

L. Planiscig, La Collezione Giacinto Auriti, Vienna 1931, no. 12; A. Santangelo, Museo di Palazzo Venezia. La Collezione Auriti, Rome 1964, p. 51.