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 10865

Material and technique

Bronze, natural dark brown patina

Author

Northern Italian School (Venice?)

Dating

16th century

Dimensions

6.8 x 9.9 cm.

Origin

Auriti Collection (1963)

Image copyright

SSPSAE e per il Polo Museale della città di Roma

Short description

This cylindrical and wide based ink-pot, characterized by a smooth lip and embossed with racemes and lion heads, belongs to the most modest category of ink-pots in the Palazzo Venezia collection. These objects frequently conserve the copper container for the ink.

Pietro Cannata

Bibliography

L. Planiscig, La Collezione Giacinto Auriti, Vienna 1931, no. 13; A. Santangelo, Museo di Palazzo Venezia. La Collezione Auriti, Rome 1964, p. 51.