Description
The bucket, or situla, stands on a flaring foot and has a separate handle. Between two parallel bands of turning, four monograms of Christ are inlaid in a pinkish niello set in black niello.
Bibliography
Handbook of the Dumbarton Oaks Collection, Harvard University (Washington, DC, 1955), no. 76.
M. Ross, Metalwork, Ceramics, Glass, Glyptics, Painting, Catalogue of the Byzantine and Early Mediaeval Antiquities in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection, Vol. I, (Washington, DC, 1962), p. 45, no. 50, Pl. XXXII.
Handbook of the Dumbarton Oaks Collection, Harvard University (Washington, DC, 1967), no. 136.
Sacred Art, Secular Context: Objects of Art from the Byzantine Collection of Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C., Accompanied by American Paintings from the Collection of Mildred and Robert Woods Bliss, ed. Asen Kirin, Georgia Museum of Art (Athens, GA, 2005), cat. no. 42, and back cover.
Exhibition History
Cambridge, Fogg Museum, "A Selection of Ivories, Bronzes, Metalwork and Other Objects from the Dumbarton Oaks Collection," Nov. 15 - Dec. 31, 1945.
Cambridge, Fogg Museum, Aug. 1972 through Dec. 1976.
Athens, GA, Georgia Museum of Art, “Sacred Art, Secular Context: Objects of Art from the Byzantine Collection of Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C., Accompanied by American Paintings from the Collection of Mildred and Robert Woods Bliss,” May 15 – November 6, 2005.
Acquisition History
Formerly in the collection of the Marchese Ridolfo Peruzzi dei Medici, Italy (before 1940).
Purchased from Brummer Gallery, September 1940.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, Dumbarton Oaks.
Harvard University, The Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, November 1940.
