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Model for a fountain
Attributed to: Niccolo Tribolo (Italian, 1500–1550)
Italian
Renaissance
about 1550
Object Place: Europe, Florence, Italy
Medium/Technique
Terracotta
Dimensions
33.66 cm (13 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Charles Amos Cummings Bequest Fund
Accession Number59.521
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsSculpture
DescriptionThree addorsed seated figures, personifications of rivers, support basins on central shaft from which water flowed to large scalloped basin supported by free-standing tails of four addorsed dolphins.
ProvenanceFrancesco Romano, Florence; 1959, sold by Romano to the MFA for $1500. (Accession date: September 17, 1959)