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Artworks
Trapani
Two Trays, First Half of the 17th CenturyGilt copper, corals15 x 12 cmFurther images
These two pieces are covered with a decorative pattern of rods, commas and spheres culminating at the centre: a coral flower on one tray and a silver flower on the other. Both have an openwork edge that in one of these two little trays is adorned with other pieces of coral. Objects of this type, both circular and oval, and of various sizes, can be considered decorative rarities: in an inventory of Palazzo Colonna in Rome of 1714 (mentioned in the introduction) we read a description of a display case containing numerous objects of this type, protected by glass doors and kept alongside devotional works. Pieces resembling those presented here include that illustrated in Tescione 1964 (plate XXII), another in Palazzo Doria Pamphilj in Rome (Philippovich 1966, p. 126) and the two with plain edges in the Museo Duca di Martina in Naples (Civiltà del 600 1984, II, p. 340)These two pieces are covered with a decorative pattern of rods, commas and spheres culminating at the centre: a coral flower on one tray and a silver flower on the other. Both have an openwork edge that in one of these two little trays is adorned with other pieces of coral.
Objects of this type, both circular and oval, and of various sizes, can be considered decorative rarities: in an inventory of Palazzo Colonna in Rome of 1714 (mentioned in the introduction) we read a description of a display case containing numerous objects of this type, protected by glass doors and kept alongside devotional works. Pieces resembling those presented here include that illustrated in Tescione 1964 (plate XXII), another in Palazzo Doria Pamphilj in Rome (Philippovich 1966, p. 126) and the two with plain edges in the Museo Duca di Martina in Naples (Civiltà del 600 1984, II, p. 340)
