Object details
Object number
F18s9
Creator(s)
Italian, Sicily
Title
Vitrine (Vetrina)
Date
1750-1799
Medium
Gilded pine, glass
Dimensions
195 x 80.5 x 58.5 cm (76 3/4 x 31 11/16 x 23 1/16 in.)
Provenance
Purchased by Denman Waldo Ross (1853–1935), art collector and design theorist, in Gibraltar around 1900.
Gift from Denman Ross to Isabella Stewart Gardner, 22 February 1907.
Commentary
Isabella 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.
Bibliography
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 147. (probably Spanish, 18th century)
Grace Hardendorff Burr. Hispanic Furniture (New York, 1964), p. 95. (Spanish, 18th century)
Rollin Hadley. “Notes, Records, Comments.” Gardner Museum Calendar of Events 8, no. 20 (17 Jan. 1965), p. 2. (Spanish, 18th century)
Rollin Hadley. “Notes, Records, Comments.” Gardner Museum Calendar of Events 8, no. 29 (21 Mar. 1965), p. 2.
Adolph S. Cavallo. Textiles: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1986), p. 116, no. 44. (Erroneously as museum no. F18s8)
Fausto Calderai and Alan Chong. Furnishing a Museum: Isabella Stewart Gardner’s Collection of Italian Furniture (Boston, 2011), pp. 168-69, no. 61.
Gallery
Little Salon
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