Metalwork

194
ITALIAN
METALWORK
Metalwork
EXHIBITIONS
T h e Los Angeles C o u n t y Museum o f A r t ,
"Curator's Choice," December 11,1978-
329. Mortar
February 11, 1979.
Venice, circa 1550
Bronze
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Height: 1 ft. 7% i n . (48.9 cm); Diameter:
U l r i c h M i d d e l d o r f , " I n the Wake o f G u g l i -
ι ft. uYz i n . (59.7 cm)
elmo della Porta," Connoisseur (February
Accession number 85.SB.179
1977), pp. 75-84; "Acquisitions/1984,"
PROVENANCE
GettyMusJ'13 (1985), no. 251, pp. 256-257,
Sold, Sotheby's, L o n d o n , July 14,1977,
illus.
lot 156; [Rainer Zietz, L t d . , L o n d o n ] ;
[Rosenberg and Stiebel, Inc., N e w York];
Barbara Piasecka Johnson, Princeton, N e w
331. Basin
Jersey; [Rosenberg and Stiebel, Inc., N e w
Genoa, 1620-1625
York].
By a D u t c h or Flemish artist w o r k i n g i n
Genoa after a design b y Bernardo Strozzi
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Silver
Acquisitions/1985," GettyMusJ 14 (1986),
330
no. 222, p. 254, illus.
Diameter: 2-ft. 5 4 i n . (75.5 cm)
3
Accession number 85.DG.81
3 3 0 . Virgin Mourning
the Dead
Christ
PROVENANCE
Venice, 1586-1587
By Cesare Targone
(?) Commissioned by the Genoese Doge
Finely chased repousse gold o n obsidian (in
Alessandro Giustiniani-Longo d i Luca,
a black nineteenth-century w o o d frame)
1544-1624; L o n g h i Giustiniani; Giovanna
Signed
Musso Piantelli, 1892; [Aetas A n t i q u a , S.A.,
OPUS-CAESARIS-TAR-VENETI-
Panama].
below Christ's feet.
G o l d Relief: Height: n /s i n . (29 cm);
3
W i d t h : 10% i n . (26 cm); Obsidian Plaque:
Height: 1 ft. 3/8 i n . (38.5 cm); W i d t h :
10V16 i n . (26.5 cm)
Accession number 84.SE.121
PROVENANCE
Sir Julius Wernher, Bt. (died 1912); by
descent to Sir H a r o l d Wernher, Bt.; (sold,
329
Christie's, L o n d o n , November 16,1950,
lot 157, to D a v i d Black, Sr.); [Bernard Black
(Black-Nadeau, L t d . ) , M o n t e Carlo].
ITALIAN METALWORK
EXHIBITIONS
Genoa, Esposizione artνstico archeologico
industrνale aperta nelle Sale dell'Accademia
Ling٧istica, 1868, no. 55, p. 115; Genoa,
Palazzo Bianco, Mostra dArte Antica, 1892,
no. 86, p. 75; Genoa, Palazzo Spinola and
Palazzo Reale, Genova neWEta Barocca,
M a y 2-July 26,1992; Frankfurt, Schirn
Kunsthalle, Kunst in der Republik Genua,
September 4-November 8,1992.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
H u g h Macandrew, "A Silver Basin Designed
by Strozzi," Burlington Magazine 113 (Janu­
ary 1971), pp. 4-11; Ronald W. Lightbown,
"A N o t e o n the Silver Basin," Burlington
Magazine 113 (January 1971), p. 11; H u g h
Macandrew, "Genoese Silver o n Loan to the
Ashmolean Museum," Burlington Magazine
114 (September 1972), pp. 611-620; Carl
Hernmarck, The Art of the European Silver­
smith 1430-1830 (London and New York,
977)> ° 1 · i> P- 33; Handbook 1991, p. 212,
I
ν
2
illus.; D a v i d A . Scott, "Technological,
Analytical, and Microstructural Studies o f
a Renaissance Silver Basin," Archeomaterials
5, no. ι ( W i n t e r 1991), pp. 21-45; Franco
Boggero and Farida Simonetti, Argenti
genovesi da parata tra cinque e seicento
(Turin, 1992), no. 7, p. 233, pis. 20-23;
pp. 132,135-143·
331
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196
ITALIAN
METALWORK
332
332. W a l l
Plaque
Southern Italian, 1730-1740
By Francesco Natale Juvara
Silver and lapis lazuli
Height: 2 ft. 3V16 i n . (70 cm); W i d t h :
ι ft. 8/4 i n . (52 cm)
Accession number 85.SE.127
Italiana [ M i l a n , 1936], no. 316); [Siran
H o l d i n g Company, Geneva].
BIBLIOGRAPHY
"Acquisitions/1985," GettyMusJ"14 (1986),
no. 223, p. 254, illus.; Handbook 1991, p. 216,
illus.
333
333.
Pair o f Candelabra
N o r t h e r n Italian, circa 1830-1840
By Pelagio Palagi
G i l t and chased bronze
Height: 2 ft. 11% i n . (90 cm)
Accession number 85.DF.22.1-.2
PROVENANCE
PROVENANCE
(?) Palazzo Reale, T u r i n ; Jacob Rothschild,
(?) House o f Savoy, since its pendant is last
L o n d o n , 1983; [P. and D . Colnaghi and Co.,
recorded as belonging to a member o f that
London].
family (Antonio Morassi, Antica Oreficeria