Titus tazza (replica)
Returned to lender
This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.This tazza attests to the enduring interest in the Silver Caesars in the centuries after they were made. The dish is a copy of the Titus dish, created through the process of electroforming, a nineteenth-century technology that produced precise replicas. The figure, modeled after the Julius Caesar statuette, is probably a replacement for a lost original. The foot is one of the six introduced into the set in the late nineteenth century.
Artwork Details
- Title: Titus tazza (replica)
- Date: 19th century
- Medium: Gilded silver
- Dimensions: H: 41.9 cm
Diam: 36.8 cm - Classification: Metalwork-Silver
- Credit Line: Private collection
- Curatorial Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts