Inkstand
1600-1625 (cast)
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In addition to producing fresh ideas, artists often looked at existing works, both contemporary and antique. Sometimes they adapted them in other materials and on a different scale. The composition in the terracotta version (inv.no. A.110-1937) has been adapted on a reduced scale to decorate the lid of a bronze inkstand. The inkstand would have been used in a private study along with other functional bronzes.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | Bronze, cast |
| Brief description | Inkstand, bronze, after Giambologna, Italy (Florence), ca. 1600-25 |
| Physical description | Decorated with four grotesque figures over curved feet and four lion-masks with rings in the mouths. On the cover is a reclining female figure writing in a book and surrounded by various instruments. |
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| Credit line | Salting Bequest |
| Object history | From the Salting bequest. |
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| Summary | In addition to producing fresh ideas, artists often looked at existing works, both contemporary and antique. Sometimes they adapted them in other materials and on a different scale. The composition in the terracotta version (inv.no. A.110-1937) has been adapted on a reduced scale to decorate the lid of a bronze inkstand. The inkstand would have been used in a private study along with other functional bronzes. |
| Associated object | A.110-1937 (Model) |
| Bibliographic reference | Binnebeke, Emile von. Bronze Sculpture: Sculpture from 1500-1800 in the Collection of the Boymans-van-Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam, 1994, pp. 82-83, cat. no. 18 |
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| Accession number | M.682-1910 |
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| Record created | April 12, 2005 |
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