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Holy Water Stoup with Scene of the Holy Family and the Infant St. John the Baptist
Holy Water Stoup with Scene of the Holy Family and the Infant St. John the Baptist

Holy Water Stoup with Scene of the Holy Family and the Infant St. John the Baptist

Artist Giovanni Giardini (Italian, 1646 - 1721)
Date18th century
MediumLapis lazuli, silver, and gilded bronze (ormolu)
DimensionsOverall: 35 × 19 × 5 inches (88.9 × 48.26 × 12.7 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust through the George H. and Elizabeth O. Davis Fund in honor of Dr. Catherine L. Futter
Object number2020.18
MarkingsAt the middle left of the central relief, near the shoulder of St. Joseph, maker’s mark of flowers in a basket for Giardini
On View
On view
Gallery Location
  • 120
DescriptionA wall-mounted applique (fitting or sconce) with attached container for holy water; the frame and container in gilt-bronze (ormolu); inset with lapis-lazuli panels and central silver relief panel with a scene of the Holy Family (The Virgin, St. Joseph and the Christ Child) accompanied by three angels or putti.Provenance

Unknown collection, United Kingdom, by October 2004;

With Carlo Montanaro, London, Rome and Milan, by October 2004-October 2013;

Purchased from Montanaro by Galerie Neuse, Bremen, Switzerland, October 2013-2020.


Published References

On this stoup:

Back Matter, Burlington 156, no. 1335 (June 2014): unpaginated, ill.

 

On Giardini:

Angela Catello, “Giovanni Giardini,” Oxford Dictionary of Art Online, https://doi.org/10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.T032096, Published online: 2003

John Fleming and Hugh Honour, The Penguin Dictionary of Decorative Arts, new ed. (London and New York: Viking, 1989; orig. publ. 1977): 336–337

Salvatore Fornari, Gli argenti romani (Rome: Edizione del Tritone, 1968): 156–171, passim.

Giovanni Giardini, Disegni diversi inventati e delineati da Giovanni Giardini da Forlì (Rome, 1714)

Carlo Grigoni, Giovanni Giardini da Forlì: argentiere e fonditore in Roma (Rocca San Casciano, Italy: Arti Grafiche Cappelli, 1963).

Alvar González-Palacios, “Giovanni Giardini: New Works and New Documents,” Burlington 137, no. 1107 (June 1995): 367–376, passim.

Alvar González-Palacios, “Giardini and Passarini: Facts and Hypotheses,” Burlington 156, no. 1335 (June 2014): 365–375.

Carl Hernmarck, The Art of the European Silversmith, 1430–1830 (London and New York: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1977): I, 244, 286; II: 658, 818.

Hugh Honour, Goldsmiths and Silversmiths (New York: Putnam, 1971): passim.

 Simon Jervis, The Penguin Dictionary of Design and Designers, (Harmondsworth, Middlesex, UK: 1984):199–200

 Angelo Lipinsky, “Arte orafa a Roma: Giovanni Giardini da Forlì,” Arte Illustrata 4, no. 45/46 (November-December 1971): 18-34

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