1932.165: Design for a Salt Cellar

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1932.165

People

Unidentified Artist

Title

Design for a Salt Cellar

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

16th century

Culture

Italian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/298517

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown ink, brown wash, black chalk and touches of red chalk on cream antique laid paper

Dimensions

12.4 × 14.9 cm (4 7/8 × 5 7/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• collector's mark: l.l.: L. 1760 (R. Lamponi)
• inscription: verso, u.r. corner, graphite: Benvenuto Cellini
• inscription: verso, bottom center, brown ink: Polidoro/Dal 1520 al 1530 [latter part of inscription possibly in another hand]
• watermark: No watermark was observed when examined by Craigen Bowen, 3/18/2002.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

R. Lamponi, Florence, Italy (Lugt 1760). Charles A. Loeser, Florence, Italy, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1932

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Charles A. Loeser

Accession Year

1932

Object Number

1932.165

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 107, p. 69, as Italian 16th century
• Norman W. Canedy, The Roman Sketchbook of Girolamo da Carpi, ed. Ernst Gombrich, The Warburg Institute, University of London / E. J. Brill (London and Leiden, 1976), pp. 54 and 136 as "...possibly by Perino del Vaga or his circle..."
• Carlo Francini, "L'inventario della collezione Loeser alla Villa Gattaia", Bollettino della Società di Studi Fiorentini (2000), no. 6, p. 119 ("Cartella con tre stelle nere")

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