The Medici Vase
Giovanni Zoffoli (c.1745-1805) and Giacomo Zoffoli (c.1731-1785)
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
1793
Materials
Bronze and marble
Measurements
380 x 144 x 144 mm; 265 mm (Diameter)
Place of origin
Italy
Order this imageCollection
Saltram, Devon
NT 871621.7
Summary
Bronze, The Medici Vase, after the antique, Giovanni Zoffoli (c.1745-1805) and Giacomo Zoffoli (c.1731-1785), 1793. The original Athenian vase is in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence.
Full description
Part of a bronze garniture de cheminee by Giovanni and Giacomo Zoffoli, consisting of a central equestrian figure of Marcus Aurelius, two seated figures of Aggrippina and Menander, two female figures, the Capitoline Flora and the Farenese Flora, these being flanked by copies of the Borghese and Medici vases.
Provenance
Probably bought by Lord Boringdon in Rome 1793 and thence by descent until accepted by HM Treasury in part payment of death-duties from the executors of Edmund Robert Parker, 4th Earl of Morley (1877-1951) and transferred to the National Trust in 1957.
Credit line
Saltram, The Morley Collection (accepted in lieu of tax by H. M. Treasury, and transferred to The National Trust in 1957)
Makers and roles
Giovanni Zoffoli (c.1745-1805) and Giacomo Zoffoli (c.1731-1785), maker Giacomo Zoffoli (c.1731 - 1785), maker Giovanni Zoffoli (c.1745-1805), maker