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拍品专文
Lapis lazuli is a metamorphic stone that has been prized for its intense colour since the ancient civilisations of the Indus Valley. Although found in other locations internationally, the largest deposits are mined in modern day Afghanistan, and it was imported at huge expense from there into Europe in the medieval and renaissance eras. Ground and converted into the pigment known as ultramarine, it was one of the most coveted elements of altarpieces and paintings of the period.
The present pendant bucket has formerly been described as coming from the Medici workshops of Florence – the celebrated Opificio delle Pietre Dure – but it could also take its origins from workshops specialising in the production of hardstone objects such as those run by the Miseroni and Saracchi families in Milan. It can be compared in its material and overall form to a mounted bucket with handle in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna (inv. no. 1774; for an illustration and analysis see Distelberger, op. cit., no. 64, pp. 148-150). This item has been attributed to Gasparo Miseroni (1518 - c. 1573) and was documented in the inventory of the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II executed in 1607-11. It can also be compared to a lidded and mounted vase – also attributed to Miseroni and found in the same Viennese inventory – which displays the same cylindrical form with marginally concave vertical sides and a bulbous lower section (ibid., no. 65, pp. 150-153).
This lot was formerly in the collection of the celebrated dealer and collector Frederic Spitzer (1815-1890) and was included in the mammoth, posthumous sale of his collection in Paris in 1893 as lot 2627.
The present pendant bucket has formerly been described as coming from the Medici workshops of Florence – the celebrated Opificio delle Pietre Dure – but it could also take its origins from workshops specialising in the production of hardstone objects such as those run by the Miseroni and Saracchi families in Milan. It can be compared in its material and overall form to a mounted bucket with handle in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna (inv. no. 1774; for an illustration and analysis see Distelberger, op. cit., no. 64, pp. 148-150). This item has been attributed to Gasparo Miseroni (1518 - c. 1573) and was documented in the inventory of the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II executed in 1607-11. It can also be compared to a lidded and mounted vase – also attributed to Miseroni and found in the same Viennese inventory – which displays the same cylindrical form with marginally concave vertical sides and a bulbous lower section (ibid., no. 65, pp. 150-153).
This lot was formerly in the collection of the celebrated dealer and collector Frederic Spitzer (1815-1890) and was included in the mammoth, posthumous sale of his collection in Paris in 1893 as lot 2627.