IDENTIFIERS
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id:	13673
accession number:	M.1-1970

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Monday 18 December 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Copper alloy, probably bronze, cast and chased, with dark lacquer. Ceres strides forward on her left leg with her right stretched out behind her. Her left hand holds her drape behind her, and in her right, she holds out a torch.  A small dragon squirms between her feet, and on the square base there are integrally cast asphodel flowers.
title:	figure

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Prince Wiasemski Collection; Frédéric Spitzer Collection; His Sale, Paris, Paul Chevallier, 17 April 1893, 'Catalogue des objets d'art et de haute curiosité antiques, du Moyen-age et de la Renaissance', p. 247, lot 1464; J.E. Taylor Collection; His Sale, Christie's, Londonk, 1 July, 1912, lot 41; ? Donaldson Collection; Sir Ernest Cassel Collection; sold with his collection, known as the Brook House Collection, by his daughter Lady Louis Mountbatten, Puttick & Simpson, 25-27 May 1932, lot 739; ? Duke of Westminster; Gerald Kerin Ltd, from whom bought with the Cunliffe and Leverton Harris Funds, 1970.


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 with the Cunliffe and Leverton Harris Funds.

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/13673

PEOPLE
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Ceres

SUBJECTS
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dragon
dragon



TECHNIQUES
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copper alloy, probably bronze, cast, chased, and dark lacquer
casting (process)
TECHNIQUES
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patinating
TECHNIQUES
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chasing

CATEGORIES
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category: sculpture

DATING
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creation date:	1652 - 1700
creation date earliest:	1652
creation date latest:	1700
culture:	17th Century, second half#

CREATORS
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maker: Anguier, Michel

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 54.2

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 20.5



EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	Treasures from the Fitzwilliam, "The Increase of Learning and other great Objects of that Noble Foundation"
title:	Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
title:	Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (2005)
CITATIONS
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La Collection Spitzer
Fitzwilliam. The Annual Reports of the Fitzwilliam Museum Syndicate and the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Cambridge for the Year ending 31 December 1969
Treasures from the Fitzwilliam: ''The Increase of Learning and other great Objects of that Noble Foundation''
Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Treasures of the Fitzwilliam Museum
European Sculpture and Works of Art from the collection formed by the British Rail Pension Fund
Museums New York Winter 2005
European Sculpture & Works of Art
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