Rock-cut prison chamber
Hand-hewn living-rock wall & ceiling of Arco Castle's stone prison, with a light-slot window
Harpsichord
Antique harpsichord — long carved-walnut case on its stand, in a Venetian palazzo period room
Bronze wellhead (Doge's Palace)
Green-patinated cast-bronze wellhead with dense Renaissance figural relief on a stepped base, in the Ducale courtyard
Squirrel spring-rocker
Grey molded squirrel spring-rider on an orange coil spring, in a public park
Galley pole finial
17th-c embossed & pierced copper galley color-staff finial (pomolo di calcese), Museo Correr inv. Cl. XIV n.1509
Carved walnut rosette panel
Deeply carved dark-walnut panel — a six-point star/leaf rosette with iron studs, from a chest or door
Pesce UP5/6 «La Mamma»
Gaetano Pesce UP5/6 (La Mamma / Donna) armchair, C&B Italia 1969 — a soft polyurethane-foam metaball of a seat
Venetian marionettes
Group of 18th-c carved & costumed Venetian marionettes in period silk-velvet dress
Carved-wood land-art (weathered)
Weathered, lichened carved tree-trunk abstract sculpture on the forest floor
Bocca di Leone
Carved-stone secret-denunciation letterbox; grotesque mouth is the slot, with the inscription against those who conceal favors or hide true revenue
Chopines
A pair of chopines — the towering Venetian platform overshoes, openwork upper on a tall sole, shown in a glass case
Bocca di Leone (Leone di San Marco)
Carved-marble denunciation letterbox with lion mask & engraved inscription; museum cards read 'Scultore Veneziano' and 'Leone di San Marco'
Marble fruit-basket corbel
Carved white-marble corbel (mensola): an overflowing woven basket of fruit — apples, pomegranate, grapes — in high relief
Carved-wood creature/pod
Two-tone carved-wood biomorphic sculpture — a bulbous pod body with a long twisting tail
Carved-wood flame/fish figure
Pale fresh-carved blond-wood land-art figure (flame or long-snouted fish-dragon) on a log base in a meadow
Marble leaf cornice
Carved white-marble cornice with a row of water-leaf relief and a fluted underside, on stone paving
Cork oak trunk
Living cork oak trunk — thick, deeply fissured spongy cork bark, scanned in the open
Equestrian monument
Gilt-and-painted wood equestrian funerary monument (likely Paolo Savelli, c.1405) mounted over a doorway
Wellhead (vera da pozzo)
Carved stone wellhead with figural & foliate relief on a stepped base, in a courtyard with iron screens
Gilded velvet armchair
Carved giltwood ceremonial armchair upholstered in figured crimson-and-gold cut velvet
Walnut cabinet
Carved walnut cassettone / cabinet with fielded panels and ring pulls
Bronze portrait bust
Dark-bronze portrait bust of a ruff-collared sitter, mounted against a gold-leaf tondo
Venetian textile cap
Soft silk costume cap/footwear with a gold-thread brocade band, on an acrylic mount; label 'Manifattura Veneziana'
Bronze portrait bust
Cast-bronze bust of a bearded man in cuirass on a scrolled socle
Architectural model
Carved-wood sectioned model of a multi-storey palazzo facade with arcaded loggia