Pan Sitting on a Vase

Inscriptions

Labeled: FP 2 (top of base); IS (in paint on vase lid bottom); P.M. 347, T.9 (in paint underneath base); Tripp item no. 9 (label taped underneath vase)

Provenance

Henry J. Pfungst, London, by 1900 [see Descriptive Catalogue 1900]; sold to the firms of Durlacher and Wertheimer, London, 1900 [see Penny 1992]; sold to J. Pierpont Morgan, New York, 1901 [see same]. Joseph Brummer, New York [see same]. Chester D. Tripp (d. 1974), Chicago, by 1974 [see same]; by descent to his widow, Jane B. Tripp (d. 1988); bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1987 [according to Receipt X16831 in Registrar's office]; accessioned by the Art Institute, 1988.

Publications

Descriptive Catalogue of a Small Collection Principally of XVth and XVIth Century Bronzes (1900). Nicholas Penny, Catalogue of European Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum, 1540 to the Present Day, Vol. III: British (Oxford, 1992), pp. 147-48.

Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.

Quick Overview

Artist: Frederick William Pomeroy (English, 1857–1924)
Date: c. 1885–90
Medium: Bronze
Dimensions: Base diam: Diam.: 11.1 cm (4 3/8 in.); 27.6 × 18.4 cm (10 7/8 × 7 1/4 in.)
Type: Sculpture
Classification: statuette
Style: nineteenth century
Place: England
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe
Credit line: Bequest of Chester D. Tripp
Accession no.: 1988.35.2

Open-access museum record · AT-00001879