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 10866

Material and technique

Bronze, natural brown patina, slightly reddened

Author

Northern Italian School (Venice?)

Dating

Mid-16th century

Dimensions

8.6 x 12 cm.

Origin

Auriti Collection (1963)

Image copyright

SSPSAE e per il Polo Museale della città di Roma

Short description

This ink-pot, with a rather prominent relief decoration consisting of racemes and lion heads, rests on three lion-shaped pedestals. Since none of the lions match the style of the ink-pot or are mentioned in Planiscig and Santangelo's catalogues, it is plausible that they were added later, probably after 1964, when the monograph on the Auriti Collection was published. The ink-pot still conserves the original container for the ink and a large ring with four holes for pens.

Pietro Cannata

Bibliography

L. Planiscig, La Collezione Giacinto Auriti, Vienna 1931, no. 14; A. Santangelo, Museo di Palazzo Venezia. La Collezione Auriti, Rome 1964, p. 51.