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

Hardstones

Pair of Vases

Early seventeenth century

Golden alabaster {aUbastro dorato) with

paragone marble bases

Height (with lid): 1 ft. 2 in. (35.5 cm);

Height (without lid): 9% in. (24 cm);

Width: ι ft. 4^3 4 in. (42.7 cm)

Accession number 92.DJ.68.1-.2

PROVENANCE

Sold, Sotheby's, Monte Carlo, March 3,

1990, lot 70; [Didier Aaron, Paris]; [Same

Art, Ltd., Zurich].

BIBLIOGRAPHY

"Acquisitions/1992," GettyMusJ 21 (1993),

in press, illus.

Mosaics

391. Portrait of Pope Clement VIII
     (Ippolito Aldobrandini)
     Florence, 1600-1601
     Designed by Jacopo Ligozzi; produced in
     the Galleria de' Lavori in pietre dure by
     Romolo di Francesco Ferrucci, called
     del Tadda

Marble, lapis lazuli, mother-of-pearl, lime­

stone, and calcite (some overpainted paper

or fabric cartouches) on a silicate black

stone in original gilt-bronze frame

Height (with frame): 3 ft. 3 I3/i6 in. (101.7 cm);

Width (with frame): 2 ft. 5^5 /s in. (75.2 cm);

Height (without frame): 3 ft. 23 /i6 in. (97 cm);

Width (without frame): 2 ft. 2^3 4 in. (68 cm)

Accession number 92.SE.67

391

One of a pair 390

ITALIAN MOSAICS 223