Cooling Vessel
ca. 1540 (made)
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Large basins like this were used as cooling vessels for wine at the dinner table. In contemporary images, they are often situated on the floor, besides the table, with servants to retrieve bottles of wine from them to serve to the diners.
Wine-cooling basins were filled with water, and their decoration often alludes to themes in which water plays an important part, in this case, a scene with river-gods. The scene is adapted from a detail of the engraving of the Judgement of Paris by Marcantonio Raimondi after Raphael.
Wine-cooling basins were filled with water, and their decoration often alludes to themes in which water plays an important part, in this case, a scene with river-gods. The scene is adapted from a detail of the engraving of the Judgement of Paris by Marcantonio Raimondi after Raphael.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | Tin-glazed earthenware, painted in colours |
| Brief description | Twelve-sided winecooler with two volute handles, tin-glazed earthenware painted in colours, the interior a scene with rivergods and Jupiter. Possibly made in Casteldurante, ca. 1540 |
| Physical description | Twelve-sided winecooler with two volute handles, supported on a row of twelve satyr's masks resting on a flat ring, painted in colours. In the interior a scene with rivergods and Jupiter above in the clouds, painted in grisaille. |
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| Object history | Formerly in the Uzielli Collection |
| Historical context | Large basins like this were used as cooling vessels for wine at the dinner table. In contemporary images, they are often situated on the floor, besides the table, with servants retrieve bottles of wine from them to serve to the diners. Wine-cooling basins were filled with water, and their decoration often alludes to themes in which water plays an important part, in this case, a scene with river-gods. The scene is adapted from a detail of the engraving of the Judgement of Paris by Marcantonio Raimondi after Raphael. |
| Subjects depicted | |
| Summary | Large basins like this were used as cooling vessels for wine at the dinner table. In contemporary images, they are often situated on the floor, besides the table, with servants to retrieve bottles of wine from them to serve to the diners. Wine-cooling basins were filled with water, and their decoration often alludes to themes in which water plays an important part, in this case, a scene with river-gods. The scene is adapted from a detail of the engraving of the Judgement of Paris by Marcantonio Raimondi after Raphael. |
| Other number | 612 - Rackham (1977) |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 7538-1861 |
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| Record created | December 21, 2005 |
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