Spice Holder
maker
Unknown
Dateearly 19th century
Place MadeVenice, Veneto, Italy, Europe
MediumSilver
Dimensions34.5 cm (13 9/16 in.)
ClassificationsVessels
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberM21w16
eMuseum ID730618
EmbARK ObjectID14447
Previous Number614
TMS Source ID3238
Last Updated11/23/24
Status
Not on viewWeb CommentaryIsabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.
BibliographyNotesGilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 183. (as a Venetian reliquary)
Kaeley Ferguson, "Not Your Grandmother's Silver Cabinet," Inside the Collection (blog), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 12 January 2021, https://www.gardnermuseum.org/blog/not-your-grandmothers-silver-cabinet
Kaeley Ferguson, "Not Your Grandmother's Silver Cabinet," Inside the Collection (blog), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 12 January 2021, https://www.gardnermuseum.org/blog/not-your-grandmothers-silver-cabinet
MarksNotesStamped (bottom of base): a banded globe surrounded by seven stars, the whole within a seven-sided polygon
Stamped (bottom of base): a comet
Stamped (bottom of base): N in circle with fragment of another letter above (top of stem)
Stamped (bottom of base): a comet
Stamped (bottom of base): N in circle with fragment of another letter above (top of stem)
ProvenanceNotesEntered Isabella Stewart Gardner's collection at an unknown date.
