Object details
Accession number
U14n2
Primary Creator
Italian, Florence
Full title
Door and Frame
Creation Date
early 16th century
Provenance
Made for the Palazzo Borgherini in the Borgo Santi Apostoli, Florence about 1507.
Purchased by Isabella Gardner from the dealer Emilio Costantini, Florence, on 6 October 1897 for 5670 lire.
Dimensions
302 x 261 cm (118 7/8 x 102 3/4 in.)
Display Media
Walnut, with inlays of various woods, iron
Dimension Notes
Overall: 302 x 261 cm (118 7/8 x 102 3/4 in.)
Door: 231 x 127.2 x 7.9 cm (90 15/16 x 50 1/16 x 3 1/8 in.)
Web Commentary
This impressive wooden doorway once formed the inner entrance to the Palazzo Borgherini in Florence.
Permanent Gallery Location
Second Floor Stairhall and Stairway
Bibliography
Isabella Stewart Gardner. Catalogue. Fenway Court. (Boston, 1903), p. 5. (as Florentine intarsia work)
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 85. (15th century)
Fausto Calderai and Alan Chong. Furnishing a Museum: Isabella Stewart Gardner’s Collection of Italian Furniture (Boston, 2011), pp. 92-94, no. 26.
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