Triton blowing a conch shell (tureen)

Bridge, John (1755-1834)


Item type:
decorative art
Date of creation:
1823-1824
Height:
33.1 cm  (13 1/16 in.)
Technique / Medium:
Silver with repoussé, cast, applied, and chased decoration
Place of creation:
England

    Item location

  • Art Institute of Chicago
    [Museum inv. no.: 1967.486]Gift of Emily Crane Chadbourne

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Conch-shell trumpet [4389]

RIdIM images


Image URLs

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Bibliographic references

Owens, Margareth Boyer. Art Institute of Chicago. RIdIM/RCMI inventory of music iconography, no. 2. Edited by Terence Ford (New York: Research Center for Musical Iconography, 1987) 289da92. RILM 1988-275.

RIdIM record id

1700