Ink-pot

Object belonging

One's own

Category

Bronze sculpture

City

Rome

Location

Museo Nazionale del Palazzo di Venezia

Specific location

Room 17

Inventory

PV 10869

Material and technique

Bronze, natural brown patina

Author

19th century forgery

Dating

19th century

Dimensions

30x12.8x11.5 cm.

Origin

Auriti Collection (1963)

Image copyright

SSPSAE e per il Polo Museale della città di Roma

Short description

This ink-pot has been attributed by Planiscig and Santangelo to a 17th century Venetian artist. Santangelo, though, notes that the bronze might not be authentic. The way in which it was founded and its unusual decoration, consisting of three winged putti and a hooded old man, point to an eastern model and confirm that the bronze is a forgery.

Pietro Cannata

Bibliography

L. Planiscig, La Collezione Giacinto Auriti, Vienna 1931, no. 40; A. Santangelo, Museo di Palazzo Venezia. La Collezione Auriti, Rome 1964, p. 52.