Workshop of Severo da Ravenna (c. 1465/75–c. 1538)
Inkwell in the form of a sea monster, c. 1510
Bronze
10⅝ inches (27 cm.) width
Provenance
Sotheby’s, London, 23 March 1971, lot 96
Abbott-Guggenheim Collection
Their sale, Christie’s, New York, 1 May 2019, lot 264
Private collection, New York
Exhibitions
E. van Binnebeke, Beeldhouwkunst, 1500-1800 in de collectie van het Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam 1994, pp. 50-51, no. 4
M. Schwartz, ed., European Sculpture from the Abbott Guggenheim Collection, New York, 2008, pp. 40-41, no. 13
Literature
San Francisco, The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Abbott Guggenheim Collection, 3 March-11 September 1988, L. Camins, ed., pp. 17-19, no. 2