ECL-Bn.2:59-2013
Parts
Object number
ECL-Bn.2:59-2013
Object type
Identification
Title
Vase with marine thiasos
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Comments
Unlike the rest of the album Bn 2 there is no clear indication that this is from the Palazzo Barberini
Description
Content (description)
The vase is tall and jug-lke, but has no handle; it is perhaps trefoil-lipped. On the shoulder is concave fluting, which is separated by a strong horizontal moulding from the broad band below, decorated in relief with a marine thiasos. The bottom of the body is decorated with leaves. The vase stands on a flaring foot. Of the marine thiasos is shown a nymph on the coils of a sea-centaur, with a dolphin below; a putto flies to right towards the next group. An arabesque with grotesque head projects at left at the top of the figured frieze.
Content (object)
vase
Dimensions
height (actual size): 507mm
width (actual size): 379mm
width (actual size): 379mm
Inscription
Below the drawing is a scale numbered up to 4.
B written in pencil on the front of the drawing lower left.
B written in pencil on the front of the drawing lower left.
Materials & techniques note
red chalk on paper
Production
Person
Unknown (Artist)
Date
c.1710-1730
History and association
Previous ownership
