Design (Full-Scale Working Drawing) for a Large Oval Silver Dish with Silver Gilt Border Showing Vulcan's Forge
Giovanni Giardini
1646–1722 · Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, yellow and blue watercolor over black chalk. Framing lines in pen and brown ink. On two glued sheets · Drawings and Prints
Full-scale working drawing for a large oval gilt silver dish with a wide border. The central oval compartment shows a scene of Venus at the forge of Vulcan. the surrounding border is decorated with weapon trophies, close to the well-known designs by Polidoro da Caravaggio, and contains four plaques or insets showing Gods, among which Neptune, Diana, Venus and a third female goddess (possibly in silver or grisailles enamel painting).
- Artist
- Giovanni Giardini
- Date
- 1646–1722
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, yellow and blue watercolor over black chalk. Framing lines in pen and brown ink. On two glued sheets
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- Purchase, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund and Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1971
