Workshop of the Roman Triumphs, Northern Italy, Ferrara, circa 1530
Pastiglia Casket
Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
baked paste known as pastiglia moulded reliefs, on a partly gilt wooden core
rectangular casket resting on four pressed round feet; the body decorated on three sides with a Roman triumphal procession and vessels on the last side, on a guilloché background, framed by a double border of leafy foliage and a frieze of alternating water and acanthus leaves; the flat lid framed by a double border with a laurel garland and interlacing motif, the central part decorated with a triton on each corner surmounted by a chimera and accompanied by a satyr
12 by 20 by 13 cm; 4¾ by 7⅞ by 5⅛ in.
Arturo Lopez Willshaw Collection (1900 -1962);
Sotheby’s Monaco, 23June 1976, lot 28;
Christie’s Londres, 8 July 1981, lot 258;
G. Lotti Collection, Mantova;
Sotheby’s London, 4 December 2013, lot 74;
Where acquired.
P. M. de Winter, « A little-known creation of Renaissance Decorative Arts: The white lead Pastiglia Box », in Saggi e Memorie di storia dell’art, no. 14, 1984, pp. 9-131, the present casket p. 32, no. 74, and p. 42, ill. p. 128, fig. 66.
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