Putti musicians

Spiller, Gottfried von (1658-1728) (attributed to)


Item type:
decorative art
Date of creation:
1700-1710
Height:
19.1 cm  (7 1/2 in.)
Diameter:
8.1 cm  (3 3/16 in.)
Technique / Medium:
deep wheel-cut decorations on ruby glass

    Item location

  • Art Institute of Chicago
    [Museum inv. no.: 1927.1208]Gift of Julius and Augusta Rosenwald

Description

Two putti, one playing a side drum, the other a wind instrument with finger holes.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Side drum [2729]
Wind instruments [3730] (Wind instrument with finger holes.)

RIdIM images


Image URLs

image link 1

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) 242 da 84. RILM 1988-275.

RIdIM record id

1722