Fountain Basin

CultureRoman

Date220 C.E.

MediumCipollino marble

DimensionsOverall: 50 1/2 × 90 inches (128.27 × 228.6 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust

Object number31-98

On View

On view

Gallery Location

Rozzelle

Collections

Ancient Art

Terms

DescriptionA great breciated green marble bowl.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

[None known at this time.]

Provenance

Possibly found in Ostia, Italy [1];

With Ugo Jandolo, Rome, by June 27, 1931;

Purchased from Jandolo, through Harold Woodbury Parsons, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1931.

NOTES:

[1] According to a letter from dealer Ugo Jandolo, June 27, 1931, NAMA curatorial files.

Published References

“The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and the Atkins Museum of Fine Arts,” Teachers College Scout 5, no. 1 (April 1934): 29.

Donald Hoffman, "Returning the Youth to the Nelson Fountain," Kansas City Star (March 28, 1982): 5F.

Robert Cohon, “Roman Metrics and Roman Sarcophagi,” in Römische Sarkophage: Akten des Internationalen Werkstattgesprächs, 11. -13. Oktober 2012 (Graz), ed. Barbara Porod and Gabriele Koiner (Graz: Uni Graz, 2015), 75, (repro.).

Kristie C. Wolferman, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A History (Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2020), 128.

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