IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 13550 accession number: M.1-1898 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 27 December 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- 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 ----- 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 --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Bought STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/13550 PEOPLE ------------------- Wake, Henry Thomas (1831-1914) Richards, Samuel (1859-192) Virgin Mary SUBJECTS ------------------- mourning TECHNIQUES ---------- bronze, cast, formerly decorated with champlevé enamel; the figure is in relief, with engraved decoration casting (process) CATEGORIES ------ category: sculpture category: champlevé enamels DATING ------ creation date: 1100 - 1130 creation date earliest: 1100 creation date latest: 1130 culture: 12th Century, Early culture: Medieval CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: in value: 5½ dimension: Width units: in value: 1¼ IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/M_1_1898.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 400 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/M_1_1898.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 400 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/M_1_1898.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 400 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/preview_M_1_1898.jpg height: 475 pixels width: 250 pixels