Terms and conditions of use
Cain and Abel, double-spouted ewer
(c. 1570-1580)
Medium
earthenware (maiolica)
Measurements
28.2 × 29.2 × 18.6 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1971
Gallery location
16th & 17th Century Gallery - Painting and Sculpture
Mezzanine linked to Level 1, NGV International
About this work
These two ewers are among the most fantastically and elaborately sculptural examples of Urbino maiolica of the later sixteenth century. Their elaborately moulded shape is in the spirit of the fantastic objects in carved hardstone and precious metal, made by Jacques Bylivert and Bernardo Buontalenti in the grand-ducal workshops of Florence for successive Medici grand dukes of Tuscany during the second half of the sixteenth century. Objects like these would have been intended purely for display.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Urbino, Italy
Accession Number
D98B-1971
Department
International Decorative Arts
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Ms Carol Grigor through Metal Manufactures Limited
Physical description
Moulded after manner of a bronze, two semi-human winged female monsters and four grotesque masks etc.