IDENTIFIERS
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id:	13550
accession number:	M.1-1898

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Friday 27 December 2024

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Bronze, formerly decorated with champlevé enamel; the figure is in relief. Only the head, tilted to the right, is repoussé; the rest is engraved on the surface, including the hands and the drapery. Almost all trace of the enamel work has been lost. It possibly comes from a Crucifixion group on a reliquary chest.
title:	figure

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Found in digging a grave in Attleborough Churchyard, Norfolk  in or before 1864; T. Muskett, Attleborough by whom presented on 27 September 1864 to J. Warren; Samuel Richards, Nottingham; from whom purchased for 70/- (£3 10s.). on 6 June 1898 by Henry Thomas Wake (1831-1914), dealer in books and antiquities, Fritchley, Derbyshire; his Monthly Catalogue, no. 289, 7th month (July), 1898, p. 5, no. 78, illustrated by line drawing; purchased from him for £4.10s. on 11 July 1898.


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
creditline: Bought

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/13550

PEOPLE
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Wake, Henry Thomas (1831-1914)
Richards, Samuel (1859-192)
Virgin Mary

SUBJECTS
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mourning



TECHNIQUES
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bronze, cast, formerly decorated with champlevé enamel; the figure is in relief, with engraved decoration
casting (process)

CATEGORIES
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category: sculpture
category: champlevé enamels

DATING
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creation date:	1100 - 1130
creation date earliest:	1100
creation date latest:	1130
culture:	12th Century, Early
culture:	Medieval

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: in
value: 5½

dimension: Width
units: in
value: 1¼



IMAGES

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width: 400 pixels

surrogate: mid
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surrogate: original
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width: 400 pixels

surrogate: preview
format: jpeg
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width: 250 pixels