ECL-Bm.4:118-2012
Parts
Object number
ECL-Bm.4:118-2012
Object type
Identification
Title
Vase with Bacchic reliefs
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Comments
Bm 4 118 and 119 catalogued as one being drawings of the same vase.
Description
Content (description)
Neo-Attic krater decorated with fluting around the bottom of the body beneath a band of bacchic figures. In this figured band are a maenad and satyrs dancing (118), a satyr playing the double flute followed by drunken Dionysus supported by a child, and a nude maenad dancing (119). The knobbed lid was made in 1604 by Cosimo Cioli. This vase was believed by Vasari to be 'il talento che Cesare Imperatore diede a Pisa, con lo quale si misurava lo censo che a lui era dato.....'
Content (object)
vase with lid
Dimensions
height (actual size): 438mm
width (actual size): 309mm
width (actual size): 309mm
Inscription
Vaso del tributo, che sta in Pisa
Materials & techniques note
black lead pencil on paper
Production
Person
Unknown (Artist)
Date
c.1710-1730
History and association
Previous ownership
References
• Papini (Pisa II ; 12 Cat. no. 2, fig. pl 13; inv. no. 56)
• Vasari ( Vasari : Vite di Nicola e Giovanni Pisani I ; 320)
• Vasari ( Vasari : Vite di Nicola e Giovanni Pisani I ; 320)
