Wine cooler with A Marine Triumph of Bacchus. Maker: Perhaps workshop of Guido Durantino (Italian, Urbino, active 1516-ca. 1576); Date: ca. 1550-70;

Wine cooler with A Marine Triumph of Bacchus. Maker: Perhaps workshop of Guido Durantino (Italian, Urbino, active 1516-ca. 1576); Date: ca. 1550-70;

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Wine cooler with A Marine Triumph of Bacchus. Maker: Perhaps workshop of Guido Durantino (Italian, Urbino, active 1516-ca. 1576); Date: ca. 1550-70; Culture: Italian, Urbino; Medium: Maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware); Dimensions: Overall: 9 x 19 5/8 in. (22.9 x 49.8 cm); Classification: Ceramics-Pottery; Credit Line: The Friedsam Collection, Bequest of Michael Friedsam, 1931 / During Renaissance feasts, cisterns were filled with cold water to chill fruit or bottles of wine. This example´s decoration with a seascape populated by revelers, aquatic creatures, and the youthful Bacchus (god of wine) in a chariot is well-suited to the cooler´s function. Sturdy paw feet kept the vessel stable when filled and relate to the leonine masks that form the handles.; Inscription: Inscribed on underside in red: 465 (inventory number, unknown collection); Provenance: Charles Jervas (until d. November 1739; probably his sale, March 11-20, 1740, no. 564); Brownlow Cecil, 9th Earl of Exeter, Burghley House, Lincolnshire (his gift, between 1781 and 1784, with a companion wine cooler, to Walpole); Horace Walpole, Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, London (by 1794-d. 1797; his bequest to Damer); Anne Seymour Damer, Strawberry Hill, Twickenham (17987-1810); Countess Elizabeth Laura Waldegrave, Strarberry Hill, Twickenham (1810-d. 1816); by descent, George Edward Waldegrave, 7th Earl Waldegrave (until 1842; Strawberry Hill sale, April 25-May 21, 1842, day 23 of sale [May 20, 1842], no. 81 or 82; sold for £84 including premium, with companion wine cooler, to Burdett-Coutts); Baroness Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts (1842-d. 1906); her husband, William Lehman Ashmead Bartlett Burdett-Coutts (1906-d. 1921; his sale, Christie´s, London, May 4-12, 1922, no. 182; sold for £241 10s. including premium, with the companion wine cooler, to H. J. Simmons); H. J. Simmons (in 1922); Michael Friedsam, New York (until 1931; bequeathed to MMA)