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A boulder of exceptional size, dull green mottled with white, carved to represent a recumbent domesticated buffalo
History note: Winter Palace, Mr. Williamson
Height: 15 cm
Length: 40 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1946)
by
Raphael, Oscar C.
1500 CE - 1600 CE
Accession number: O.31 & A-1946
Primary reference Number: 138337
Stable URI
Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2022)
"Carving"
Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/138337 Accessed: 2022-05-24 03:38:13
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