Hand Bell with the Grimaldi Arms, Masks, Busts in Profile, Rabbits and Griffins, 16th century

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Medium

bronze//Dark brown patina

Dimensions

overall: 12.8 x 10.5 cm (5 1/16 x 4 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Accession Number

1957.14.113

Artists / Makers

Italian 16th Century (sculptor)

Image Use

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Inscription

below frieze of foliage: QVI TIMET DEVM FACIET BONA

Provenance

Gustave Dreyfus [1837-1914], Paris; his estate; purchased 1930 by (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York); purchased 1945 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; gift 1957 to NGA.

Associated Names

Dreyfus, Gustave
Duveen Brothers, Inc.
Kress Foundation, Samuel H.

Bibliography

1931: Ricci, Seymour de. The Gustave Dreyfus Collection: Renaissance Bronzes. Oxford, 1931: 124, no. 110, pl. 63

1951: Renaissance Bronzes: Statuettes, Reliefs and Plaquettes, Medals and Coins from the Kress Collection. Introduction by Perry B. Cott. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1951: 139, repro. 42, as Table bell with Grimaldi arms by North Italian 16th Century.

1965: Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: no. 539.

1983: Wilson, Carolyn C. Renaissance Small Bronze Sculpture and Associated Decorative Arts at the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1983: 124, no. 6.

1994: Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 118, repro.

1998: Avery, Charles, Marzia Ratti, and Angela Acordon, eds. Sculture: bronzetti, placchette, medaglie. Museo Civico Amedeo Lia, La Spezia. [Cinisello Balsamo], 1998: 117, no. 70.