Ink pot with a Putto Holding a Basket
- Object belonging
- One's own
- Category
- Bronze sculpture
- City
- Rome
- Location
- Museo Nazionale del Palazzo di Venezia
- Specific location
- Room 16
- Inventory
- PV 09325
- Material and technique
- Bronze, brown and yellowish natural patina, traces of black lacquer
- Author
- Venetian School (imitator of the Roccatagliata)
- Dating
- 17th century
- Dimensions
- 24.8 x 12.8 x 12.5 cm.
- Origin
- Barsanti Collection (1934)
- Image copyright
- SSPSAE e per il Polo Museale della città di Roma
Short description
The bronze was made in a Venetian studio by a copyist of Roccatagliata, replicating, a little coarsely, the latter’s joyful world of angels and graceful cherubs. The female mask, which embellishes the three main sides of the ink-pot, is a feature that crops up repeatedly in 16th and 17th century Venetian grottesche decoration.
Pietro Cannata
Bibliography
L. Pollak, La Collezione Alfredo Barsanti, Rome 1922, no. 98 p. 137; A. Santangelo, Museo di Palazzo Venezia. Catalogo delle sculture, Rome 1954, p. 28.
