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| STEFANO DELLA BELLA (Florence 1610 - 1664 Florence)
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| Design for a Table Centerpiece
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Pen and brown ink, blue wash, over black chalk
247 x 217 mm
PROVENANCE:
Thomas Tomkins, his sale, London, 25-28 November, 1818, as part of lot 289
sale, Christie´s, London, 18 March, 1975, lot 72
sale, Christie´s, London, 7 July, 1981, lot 44
The appearance and iconography of this ornament derive from the celebrated Monument to Ferdinando I at Livorno, with its central figure of Ferdinando in the uniform of the Grand Master of the Knights of S. Stefano by Giovanni Bandini (1595) and the Four Moors added by Pietro Tacca in 1626. The monument appears in the frontispiece to Della Bella’s series of six etchings, Vedute del porto di Livorno of 1654-55, for which many preparatory drawings exist, mainly in the Gabinetto Nazionale delle Stampe, Rome.
The artist has adapted the original sculptural complex to a more modest usage, substituting the curious truncated central base for the original’s elegant plinth, and adding the scrolled feet. Of the Tomkins group this is the most rational and may relate to small-scale versions of the large monument.
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