Ornamental appliqué with tritons, dolphins, and seed-pods, possibly late 15th century

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Medium

gilded bronze

Dimensions

overall (silhouetted contour): 1399 x 747.5 cm (550 13/16 x 294 5/16 in.) gross weight: 137 gr

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Accession Number

1957.14.137

Artists / Makers

Italian 15th Century (artist)

Image Use

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Provenance

(Stefano Bardini, Florence); (sale, Christie's, London, 26 May 1902, no. 7). 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. Reliefs and Plaquettes. Oxford, 1931. Vol.II, 13.

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: 141, as Attributed to Donatello.

1965: Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: no. 387.

2014: Warren, Jeremy. Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture. A Catalogue of the Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Oxford, 2014: 3:940.