ID: 700002276	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

Basin with Deucalion and Pyrrha (basin (vessel); Orazio Fontana or his workshop; about 1565 - 1575; J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center (Los Angeles, Los A...; 86.DE.539)

Titles:

Basin with Deucalion and Pyrrha (preferred,C,U,English-P,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

basin (vessel) [300045614] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Furnishings and Equipment (Hierarchy Name), Containers (Hierarchy Name), containers (receptacles), <containers by form>, vessels (containers))

Classifications:

decorative arts (preferred)

Creation Date: about 1565 - 1575

Creator Display:

Orazio Fontana or his workshop [preferred,JPGM]

Fontana, Orazio (Italian ceramicist and workshop director, ca. 1510-1571) [500015682]

Fontana, Flaminio (Italian ceramicist, active 1571-1591) [500124205]

Fontana Workshop (Italian ceramics workshop, active from 1565) [500354845]

Locations:

Current: J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, California, United States) [500329598] J. Paul Getty Museum, J. Paul Getty Trust, Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 86.DE.539

Display Materials: Tin-glazed earthenware

	earthenware [300140803]
	.......(Objects Facet, Object Genres, <object genres>, <object genres by material>, ceramics (objects), pottery (object genre))

Dimensions: Object: H: 6.4 x Diam.: 46.4 cm (2 1/2 x 18 1/4 in.)

Cultures:

Italian (preferred)

Style/Period/Group/Movement:

	Baroque [300021147] (preferred,style)
	.....(Styles and Periods Facet, Styles and Periods, <styles and periods by region>, European, <European styles and periods>, <Renaissance-Baroque styles and periods>)

General Subject:

object (utilitarian) (preferred )

religion and mythology

Specific Subjects:

	Deucalion (story from Ovid's Metamorphosis)
	..... Iconography Candidate

	Metamorphoses by Ovid 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D
	..... Iconography Candidate

	Flood of Deucalion and Pyrrha
	..... Iconography Candidate

Provenance: Baron Adolphe (Carl) de Rothschild, acquired between 1870 and 1890 - 1900 Baron Maurice (Edmond Charles) de Rothschild, 1900 - 1913/14 Duveen Brothers, Inc., 1913/14 - 1965 Norton Simon, 1965 - 1971 Private Collection, - 1986 Alain Moatti, 1986

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Top of the CONA hierarchy

.......... Movable Work

Sources and Contributors:
Basin with Deucalion and Pyrrha	........ [JPGM]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)

Subject: ....... [JPGM,VP]