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The group corresponds in reverse with an engraving of a lost fountain group by Tribolo in the Villa Casarotta at San Casciano. The site of the Tribolo fountain in the garden of the Villa Casarotta can still be identified, but the fountain seems to have been dismantled in the 19th century and the central group has disappeared.\r\n\r\nTribolo was an Italian sculptor, engineer and garden designer, who was apprecnticed in Florence first as a wood-carver with Giovanni d'Alesso d'Antonio and then as a sculptor with Jacopo Sansovino, whom he continued to assist well into the second decade of the 16th century.\r\n\r\nTribolo worked (with a team of other sculptors) on the basilica of the Santa Casa at Loreto and in 1533 he completed Andrea Sansovino's marble high relief of the Marriage of the Virgin  which began 1527 and he also helped Michelangelo to complete the Medici tombs in S Lorenzo.\r\n\r\nTribolo also worked around 12 years  for Cosimo I in Florence and undertook an extraordinary wide array of works: decorations for state occasions, firework displays, theatrical costumes and décor as well as water conservation and other hydraulic projects. His most influential undertaking was the laying out of the Boboli Gardens behind the Pitti Palace in Florence.","physicalDescription":"The group is set on a circular rocky base decorated with sea-shells. The boy stands to the right with legs apart and carries a dolphin on his left shoulder. The girl is seated beside him with her left knee threaded between his legs and her left arm round his waist. Her hair is bound by a fillet; in her right hand she holds a fishing line at the end of which is a small fish.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Tribolo","id":"A8928"},"association":{"text":"","id":""},"note":"after"}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"terracotta","id":"AAT10669"}],"techniques":[{"text":"moulding","id":"AAT53134"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Terracotta","categories":[{"text":"Earthenware","id":"THES48964"},{"text":"Sculpture","id":"THES48896"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"SCP","id":"THES48600"},"images":["2017KL2477"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"002","id":"THES397764"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Statuette boy and girl with a dolphin","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Florence","id":"x28848"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"19th century","earliest":"1800-01-01","latest":"1900-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"66","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"The group has all the appearance of having been moulded from a highly finished original in  bronze or marble. The two heads are moulded separately. The group corresponds in reverse with an engraving of a lost fountain group by Tribolo in the Villa Casarotta at San Casciano. The site of the Tribolo fountain in the garden of the Villa Casarotta can still be identified, but the fountain seems to have been dismantled in the 19th century and the central group has disappeared.\r\nAcquired in Florence.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Group in terracotta, after a fountain group by Tribolo, Florence, 19th century","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Inventory of Art Objects Acquired in the Year 1859. <u>In</u>: <u>Inventory of the Objects in the Art Division of the Museum at South Kensington, Arranged According to the Dates of their Acquisition. Vol I</u>. London: Printed by George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode for H.M.S.O., 1868, p. 30"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Maclagan, Eric and Longhurst, Margaret H. <u>Catalogue of Italian Sculpture. Text</u>. London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1932, p. 156"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Pope-Hennessy, John. <u>Catalogue of Italian Sculpture in the Victoria and Albert Museum. Volume II: Text. Sixteenth to Twentieth Century</u>. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1964, p. 438, 439"}],"production":"There is little doubt that the marble was by Tribolo, though this present cast cannot have been made before the 19th century (cit. 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