Updated 30 May 2025
Currently not on display
Currently not on display
Design for a Saltcellar (Saliera), a Shell Supported by Three Nymphs Seated on Dolphins
| Materials and Techniques | Ink on paper |
|---|---|
| Size（cm） | 12.7 x 16.4 |
| Inscriptions | Inscribed in pencil on mount lower left: (63) Giulio Romano / B 1492. D1546 Roman School. / No. 12 |
| Credit Line | Ex-Matsukata Collection |
| Standard ref. | M1772 |
| Category | Drawings |
| Collection Number | D.2017-0045 |
Provenance
Peter Lely [collector’s mark lower right: PL (Lugt 2092)]; Jonathan Richardson [collector’s mark lower right: R (Lugt 2184)]; John Charles Robinson [collector’s mark lower right: JCR (Lugt 1433)]; Edward J. Poynter, London [collector’s mark lower left: EJP (Lugt 874)]; Poynter sale, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, London, 24–25 April 1918, lot 161, as by Giulio Pippi-Romano,‘Design for a salt-cellar; a shell supported by three nymphs seated on dolphins’; Kojiro Matsukata, Kobe; pledged by Matsukata to save his business, Kawasaki Dockyard Co., Ltd., Kobe and then seized by Jugo Bank, Tokyo, 1927; private collection, Japan; deposited in NMWA, 19 August 2009–18 March 2013, ref. no. 13; deposited again in NMWA, 25 January 2016, ref. no. 13; purchased by NMWA, 13 July 2017.
Bibliography
- 2019
- Annual Bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 52 (Apr. 2017-Mar. 2018), 2019, List of New Acquisitions. p. 24.
- 2019
- The Matsukata Collection: Complete Catalogue of the European Art. Kawaguchi, Masako; Jingaoka, Megumi, eds. vol. 2: Sculpture, Drawings, Prints and Decorative Arts and Other Works, Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 2019, cat. no. 1772, col. repr.