Ink-pot with a Satyr
- Object belonging
- One's own
- Category
- Bronze sculpture
- City
- Rome
- Location
- Museo Nazionale del Palazzo di Venezia
- Specific location
- Room 16
- Inventory
- PV 09242
- Material and technique
- Bronze, natural brown patina, few traces of black lacquer
- Author
- Paduan School
- Dating
- c. 1550-1560
- Dimensions
- 18.5 x 16.2 x 15 cm.
- Origin
- Barsanti Collection (1934)
- Image copyright
- SSPSAE e per il Polo Museale della città di Roma
Short description
There are many examples of the triangular inkwell, with various different styles of legs and bases. They all feature a lion’s head placed centrally on the decorated side, shown frontally and flanked by tendrils and leaves, as in the two different inkwells in the Museo Artistico Industriale at Palazzo Barberini in Rome. A small statue of a Satyr scratching his head stands on top of the Palazzo Venezia version, a figure that also features in other examples, though without the cornucopia. Pollak had previously attributed the inkwell to Riccio while Santangelo considered it to be from Paduan workshops of the 16th century.
Pietro Cannata
Bibliography
L. Pollak, Raccolta Alfredo Barsanti (Trecento-Settecento), Bergamo 1922, no. 15 p. 30; A. Santangelo, Museo di Palazzo Venezia. Catalogo delle sculture, Rome 1954, p. 27; W. D. Wixom, Renaissance Bronzes from Ohio Collection, exh. cat., Cleveland 1975, nos. 99-100; V. H. Olsen, Aeldre udenlandsk skulptur, Copenhagen 1980, 1-2, pp. 102-103.