MEDICEAN TROUGH LEAD PLANTER

The highly stylized spirals of acanthus of our Medicean Trough Lead Planter take direct inspiration from a fragment of Roman pilaster displayed at the Villa Medici, Rome, a cast of which is kept at the Royal Academy in London. As patron to the arts and collector, Ferdinando de Medici bought this fragment in 1584 and its graceful curves have appeared in documentation of ornamentation ever since. Its latest incarnation is as a perfectly repeating pattern around our beautiful foundry-cast lead planter.