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Fountain on stand
    • Setting:
      Room VIII
    • Maker:
      unknown
    • Place:
      Tuscany
    • Date:
      16th cent.
    • Materials:
      majolica
    • Dimensions:
      diameter 560 mm, height 340 mm
    • Inventory:
      802
    • Fountain on Stand (Inv. 802)
    • Fountain on Stand (Inv. 802)

The foot and cup of this majolica stand display the same bean pattern. The outer surface, which carries the Medici coat of arms in the middle, is decorated with harpies, snails, and satyrs. The inside surface is also richly decorated with mythological characters. This splendid object, certainly dating from the Renaissance, was used by the Cimento academicians as a base for a fountain that is no longer extant.