Byzantine Well Head
maker
Unknown
Date800-825
Place MadeVenice, Northern Italy, Italy, Ancient & Byzantine World-Europe
MediumGrey Aurisina (?) limesone
Dimensions60 x 85 cm (23 5/8 x 33 7/16 in.)
ClassificationsArchitectural Elements
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberSGc8
eMuseum ID719641
EmbARK ObjectID15056
TMS Source ID3674
Last Updated10/9/24
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.
BibliographyNotesFerdinando Ongania. Raccolta delle vere da pozzo (marmi puteali) in Venezia (Venice,1889), p. 4, pl. 31. (as 9th century)
Gino Voltolina et al. Le antiche vere da pozzo veneziane (Venice, 1981), p. 28, fig. 18. (as said to be 9th century; as whereabouts unknown)
Gerd-H. Zuchold. "An Early Venetian Well-Head in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum." Fenway Court (1988), pp. 22-31, figs. 1-3. (as Venetian, 1st quarter of the 9th century)
Elizabeth Anne McCauley et al. Gondola Days: Isabella Stewart Gardner and the Palazzo Barbaro Circle. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum; Venice: Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, 2004), p. 33, fig. 30. (as Italian)
Gino Voltolina et al. Le antiche vere da pozzo veneziane (Venice, 1981), p. 28, fig. 18. (as said to be 9th century; as whereabouts unknown)
Gerd-H. Zuchold. "An Early Venetian Well-Head in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum." Fenway Court (1988), pp. 22-31, figs. 1-3. (as Venetian, 1st quarter of the 9th century)
Elizabeth Anne McCauley et al. Gondola Days: Isabella Stewart Gardner and the Palazzo Barbaro Circle. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum; Venice: Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, 2004), p. 33, fig. 30. (as Italian)
ProvenanceNotesSaid to have come from the collection of the Pegroni family, Mira.
Collection of the art dealer Moisé Rietti, Palazzo Giustiniani, Venice by 1889.
Collection of Rietti's successor, the marble dealer and mason Moisé dalla Torre, Venice, by the 1890s.
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from Moisè dalla Torre, Venice for 750 lire on 24 August 1899.
Collection of the art dealer Moisé Rietti, Palazzo Giustiniani, Venice by 1889.
Collection of Rietti's successor, the marble dealer and mason Moisé dalla Torre, Venice, by the 1890s.
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from Moisè dalla Torre, Venice for 750 lire on 24 August 1899.
