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Drawing, The Elevation of a Silver or Silver Gilt Tureen
This is a Drawing. It was attributed to Vincenzo Belli The Elder. It is dated ca. 1750 and we acquired it in 1938. Its medium is pen and brown ink, brush and gouache, watercolor on off-white laid paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
Designs for liturgical and secular metalwork by the Belli family set the standard in Italy from 1740 well into the early nineteenth century.While most of their designs were neoclassical in style, this drawing presents two alternatives for a rococo tureen.
It is credited Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund.
Its dimensions are
Frame: 44.8 x 60.3 cm (17 5/8 x 23 3/4 in.)
It has the following markings
Strasburg lily over J H (symbol--see card for exact representation) Z.
Cite this object as
Drawing, The Elevation of a Silver or Silver Gilt Tureen; Attributed to Vincenzo Belli (Italian, 1710 - 1787); Italy; pen and brown ink, brush and gouache, watercolor on off-white laid paper; Frame: 44.8 x 60.3 cm (17 5/8 x 23 3/4 in.); Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-6003
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Rococo: The Continuing Curve 1730-2008.
