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Saccomazzone Players
by Orazio Mochi
Provenance
Alfred Spero, London, 1955 [according to Bethe 1958]; sold to the University of Kansas Museum of Art, now the Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, Kansas, 1955 and accessioned as 1955.81; given to Edward Maser (died 1988), director of the University of Kansas Museum of Art, on his departure for the University of Chicago in 1961; Edward and Inge Maser, Chicago; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago by Inge Maser, 2008.
Exhibition history
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Collects, 20 September - 27 October, 1963. Beijing, Palace Museum, Garden Cultures of China and the West, Apr. 1–June 30, 2025; Suzhou Museum, July 19–Oct. 31, 2025; Ningbo Museum, Dec. 5, 2025–Mar. 8, 2026; Hong Kong Museum of Art, Apr. 23–July 29, 2026 [Beijing, Ningbo Museum and Hong Kong only]. Beijing, Palace Museum, Rejoicing in Woods and Springs: A Journey through Garden Cultures in China and the Wider World, Apr. 1–June 30, 2025, cat. 90; Suzhou China, Suzhou Museum, July 19–Oct. 31, 2025; Ningbo, China, Ningbo Museum, Dec. 5, 2025–Mar. 8, 2026; Hong Kong Museum of Art, Apr. 23–July 29, 2026 (Beijing, Ningbo and Hong Kong only).
Publications
Hellmuth Bethe, “The Saccomazzone Groups of Florence,” The Register of the Museum of Art of the University of Kansas, Lawrence, no. 10 (June, 1958), pp. 9 (ill.), 11-12. Hans R. Weihrauch, Europäische Bronzestatuetten, 15.-18. Jahrhunderts, Braunschweig, 1967, pp. 235, 507, n. 273. C[harles] A[very] in Objects for a ‘Wunderkammer’, exhib. cat., London, P. and D. Colnaghi & Co., Ltd, 1981, ed. Alvar González-Palacios, p. 162, under no. 82. Br[ook] in Il seicento fioentino: Arte a Firenze da Ferdinando I a Cosimo III, exhib. cat., Florence, Palazzo Strozzi, 1986, p. 433, under cat. 4.13. Repertorio della scultura fiorentina del seicento e settecento, ed. Giovanni Pratesi, Turin, 1993, vol. 1, p. 89, vol. 2, pl. 341. Rejoicing in Woods and Springs: A Journey through Garden Cultures in China and the Wider World, exh. cat. (Beijing: Gu gong chu ban she, 2025), 147 (ill.), cat. 90.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Orazio Mochi (Italian, 1571–1625)
- Date
- c. 1621
- Medium
- Bronze
- Dimensions
- 36.3 × 45.7 × 30.4 cm (14 × 18 × 12 in.)
- Type
- Sculpture
- Classification
- statuette
- Style
- 17th Century
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Gift of the Edward A. and Inge Maser Collection
- Accession no.
- 2009.130
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
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