( fl Siena, 1322–8). Italian goldsmith. He was the most important goldsmith in Siena in the first half of the 14th century after GUCCIO DI MANNAIA, to whom he may possibly have been apprenticed. Despite the fact that many contemporary Sienese translucent enamels have been attributed to Tondino, there is supporting evidence for only three objects. A chalice (London, BM) bears his name and that of an associate, Andrea Riguardi, on its knop. A paten representing the Resurrection in S Domenico, Perugia, is cited in the church’s inventory of 1458 as the mate to a chalice also signed by the two artists. A second paten representing St James with a Pilgrim (Perugia, G.N. Umbria), found in 1954 under the choir-stalls of the church (with the Resurrection paten), probably corresponds to a second paten mentioned in the inventory of 1458, which is also linked to a chalice signed by the two men; conflicting evidence in an earlier inventory of 1430 makes this attribution somewhat less certain, however. Other works by Tondino mentioned in documents are untraced. In 1322 he sold a silver basin to the Nove family; two years later Andrea Riguardi filed suit on his own and Tondino’s behalf against a Florentine goldsmith, Gelino di Geri, for non-payment for a chalice they had sold to him. On 28 December 1327 Tondino was paid for a golden frieze, presumably with repoussé decoration, also for the Nove family. The church of S Francesco, Assisi, once possessed a chalice signed by him, with a paten representing the Assumption of the Virgin. In 1853 Pistoia Cathedral still owned a signed chalice, dated 1328, and possibly its paten, since the reference says that it was a chalice for communion under both kinds.

• Tondino di Guerrino
  • Guccio di Mannaia