Shell Basin
Shell Basin
Place of OriginEngland
Date1616-1617
DimensionsH: 42.3 cm, max. w.: 44 cm, depth 9 cm
MediumSilver, sterling
ClassificationMetalwork
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Florence Scott Libbey Bequest in Memory of her Father, Maurice A. Scott
Object number
1976.27
Not on View
"Treasures of Toledo," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 19, No. 2 and 3, 1976, p. 57. repr.
"La chronique des arts," Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 89, no. 1298, March 1977, repr. p. 46, no. 186.
"A Fortune in Fantasy," [Cincinnati] Art Academy News, vol. 4, no. 3, Nov. 1985, repr. p. 4.
Lynch, Betsey K., "The Taft Museum/Cincinnati: A Fortune in Fantasy," Dialogue, vol. 8, no. 6, Nov/Dec 1985, repr. p. 68.
Portico (Taft Museum), vol. 1, no. 1, Dec. 1985-Feb. 1986, repr. on cover.
Glanville, Philippa, Silver in England, London, 1987, p. 228, fig. 89.
Reich, Paula, Toledo Museum of Art: map and guide, London, Scala, 2005, p. 24, repr. (col.).
Exhibition HistoryTaft Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio. 1985-86.Provincial Museum Sterckshof-Zilvercentrum, Antwerp, Belgium. 1999.
1616-1617
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