Decorative Arts: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue of the Collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum

Metalwork

329. Mortar
     Venice, circa 1550
     Bronze
     Height: 1 ft. 7% in. (48.9 cm); Diameter:
     ι ft. uYz in. (59.7 cm)
     Accession number 85.SB.179
     PROVENANCE
     Sold, Sotheby's, London, July 14,1977,
     lot 156; [Rainer Zietz, Ltd., London];
     [Rosenberg and Stiebel, Inc., New York];
     Barbara Piasecka Johnson, Princeton, New
     Jersey; [Rosenberg and Stiebel, Inc., New
     York].

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Acquisitions/1985," GettyMusJ 14 (1986),

no. 222, p. 254, illus.

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330. Virgin Mourning the Dead Christ
     Venice, 1586-1587
     By Cesare Targone
     Finely chased repousse gold on obsidian (in
     a black nineteenth-century wood frame)
     Signed OPUS-CAESARIS-TAR-VENETI-
     below Christ's feet.
     Gold Relief: Height: n^3 /s in. (29 cm);
     Width: 10 % in. (26 cm); Obsidian Plaque:
     Height: 1 ft. 3/8 in. (38.5 cm); Width:
     10V16 in. (26.5 cm)
     Accession number 84.SE.121
     PROVENANCE
     Sir Julius Wernher, Bt. (died 1912); by
     descent to Sir Harold Wernher, Bt.; (sold,
     Christie's, London, November 16,1950,
     lot 157, to David Black, Sr.); [Bernard Black
     (Black-Nadeau, Ltd.), Monte Carlo].

EXHIBITIONS

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art,

"Curator's Choice," December 11,1978-

February 11, 1979.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Ulrich Middeldorf, "In the Wake of Gugli-

elmo della Porta," Connoisseur (February

1977), pp. 75-84; "Acquisitions/1984,"

GettyMusJ'13 (1985), no. 251, pp. 256-257,

illus.

331. Basin
     Genoa, 1620-1625
     By a Dutch or Flemish artist working in
     Genoa after a design by Bernardo Strozzi
     Silver
     Diameter: 2-ft. 5^34 in. (75.5 cm)
     Accession number 85 .DG.81
     PROVENANCE
     (?) Commissioned by the Genoese Doge
     Alessandro Giustiniani-Longo di Luca,
     1544-1624; Longhi Giustiniani; Giovanna
     Musso Piantelli, 1892; [Aetas Antiqua, S.A.,
     Panama].

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