Appliqué in the Form of Paired Dolphins on a Scallop Shell, 16th century

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Medium

gilded bronze//gilding rubbed above eyes and on upper part of shell

Dimensions

overall: 13 x 27.3 cm (5 1/8 x 10 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Accession Number

1957.14.123

Artists / Makers

Italian 16th Century (artist)

Image Use

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Provenance

Santa Maria Novella, Florence.[1] Eugène de Miller Aichholz, Vienna; (his sale, Galeries Georges Petit, Paris, 18-22 May 1900, no. 34 [pair with NGA 1957.14.124]); Gustave Dreyfus [1837-1914], Paris; his estate; purchased 1930 by (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York); purchased 1945 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; gift 1957 to NGA.

[1] According to the 1900 sale catalogue of the Eugène de Miller Aiccholz collection.

Associated Names

Dreyfus, Gustave
Duveen Brothers, Inc.
Kress Foundation, Samuel H.

Exhibition History

1955: Fish Forms in Art, University Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1955, no. 20, repro.

Bibliography

1931: Ricci, Seymour de. The Gustave Dreyfus Collection: Renaissance Bronzes. Oxford, 1931: 140, no. 120, pl. 71.

1951: Renaissance Bronzes: Statuettes, Reliefs and Plaquettes, Medals and Coins from the Kress Collection. Introduction by Perry B. Cott. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1951: 140, repro. 46, as Appliqué in the shape of a double scallop shell between dolphins.

1965: Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: no. 497.