A Wine Decanter with Lions and Putti

1650/1670

Master of the Medici Banquet Decanters

Artist, Italian, active 1650 - 1670

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Artwork overview

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Thomas Tomkins (1743 - 1816). (sale, Mr. Hickman's Gallery, London, 25-28 February 1818, no. 289). Robert Stayner Holford [1808-1892]; his son, Sir George Lindsay Holford, K.V.O.C. [1860-1926]; (his sale, Sotheby's London, 22 May 1928, no. 29B). (sale, Christie's London, 18 March 1975, no. 80). Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2011

  • Italian Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1525-1835, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2011, no. 32.

Bibliography

1970

  • Italiaanse Tekeningen uit een Amsterdamse Particuliere Verzameling. Rijksprentenkabinet/Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, 1970: 33, under no. 111 (Van Regteren Altena).

1976

  • Disegni di Stefano della Bella. Il Gabinetto delle Stampe, Milan, 1976: 9.

1980

  • Ward-Jackson, Peter. Italian Drawings, Volume Two, 17th-18th Century. Victoria and Albert Museum Catalogues. London, 1980: 18, under no. 624.

1986

  • Heikamp, Detlef. Studien zur Mediceischen Glaskunst: Archivalien, Entwurfszeichnungen, Gläser und Scherben. Florence, 1986: 309.

Wikidata ID

Q64608235

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