Name of Object:

Stove

Location:

Zagreb, North-West Croatia, Croatia

Holding Museum:

Museum of Arts and Crafts

 About Museum of Arts and Crafts, Zagreb

Original Owner:

The Counts of Sermage

Date of Object:

Mid-18th century

Artist(s) / Craftsperson(s):

Unknown

Museum Inventory Number:

MUO 8136

Material(s) / Technique(s):

Clay, painted, relief work; wrought iron base

Dimensions:

H: 260 cm; with base 300 cm

Provenance:

Mirkovec Manor, Hrvatsko zagorje

Type of object:

Ceramical stove

Place of production:

Upper Austria

Description:

A stove on an iron pedestal and composed of two main parts, the lower has a scalloped design; the walls of the corpus are green and decorated with white sculptural and relief decoration (bunches of flowers, volutes and Rocaille). In the centre of the lower part are elongated cartouches with scenes in relief. In two of these cartouches ladies and gentlemen are ambling in the countryside with shepherds' crooks in their hands, while in the third there is an idyllic picture of music-making under a tree. The top of the stove ends with a three-dimensional figure of a female shepherd with a lamb in her arms. The firebox is at the rear.

A white and green stove richly decorated in the lower part, with a three-dimensional figure of a female shepherd at the top.

How date and origin were established:

By analysis of style

How Object was obtained:

Acquired from the Vraniczany-Dobrinović family in 1936.

Selected bibliography:

Muzej za umjetnost i obrt 1880–1970. Katalog izabranih djela (Museum of Arts and Crafts 1880–1970: catalogue of selected works), Zagreb, 1970, cat. 100, p. 313.

Citation of this web page:

Marina  Bagarić "Stove" in "Discover Baroque Art", Museum With No Frontiers, 2024. https://baroqueart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;BAR;hr;Mus11;39;en

Prepared by: Marina BagarićMarina Bagarić

SURNAME: Bagaric
NAME: Marina

AFFILIATION: Museum of Arts and Crafts, Zagreb, Croatia

TITLE: Senior Curator, Head of the Ceramics Collection and Architecture
Department

CV:
Marina Bagaric studied Art History and Russian Language and Literature at Zagreb University, and was awarded her MA in the History of Architecture in 2006. She has been a curator at the Museum of Arts and Crafts since 1998, and since 2004, a Senior Curator and head of the Ceramics Collection and Architecture Department. She has curated exhibitions of contemporary Croatian ceramics, and is author and contributing author of various articles and catalogues associated with the Museum’s exhibitions: Art Nouveau in Croatia (2003), Tuscan Donations (2004) and Hidden Treasures from the Holdings of the Museum of Arts and Crafts (2005/6).
Translation by: Graham McMaster
Translation copyedited by: Mandi GomezMandi Gomez

Amanda Gomez is a freelance copy-editor and proofreader working in London. She studied Art History and Literature at Essex University (1986–89) and received her MA (Area Studies Africa: Art, Literature, African Thought) from SOAS in 1990. She worked as an editorial assistant for the independent publisher Bellew Publishing (1991–94) and studied at Bookhouse and the London College of Printing on day release. She was publications officer at the Museum of London until 2000 and then took a role at Art Books International, where she worked on projects for independent publishers and arts institutions that included MWNF’s English-language editions of the books series Islamic Art in the Mediterranean. She was part of the editorial team for further MWNF iterations: Discover Islamic Art in the Mediterranean Virtual Museum and the illustrated volume Discover Islamic Art in the Mediterranean.

True to its ethos of connecting people through the arts, MWNF has provided Amanda with valuable opportunities for discovery and learning, increased her editorial experience, and connected her with publishers and institutions all over the world. More recently, the projects she has worked on include MWNF’s Sharing History Virtual Museum and Exhibition series, Vitra Design Museum’s Victor Papanek and Objects of Desire, and Haus der Kulturen der Welt’s online publication 2 or 3 Tigers and its volume Race, Nation, Class.

MWNF Working Number: HR 39