Doorknocker with a Nereid or Tritoness
Production: Unknown
Doorknocker of bronze, cast in the form of a nereid or tritoness
Doorcknocker. Bronze, cast in the form of a nereid or tritoness clad from the waist down in layers of acanthus foliage. Her two tails curl upwards on both sides to meet above her head where they are bound together and curl over to either side, each terminating in a leaf. Her head is turned to her left, and she gazes downwards and outwards to the left. Her right arm is raised behind her right tail, the hand resting on its binding. Her left arm is extended to the left, the hand resting with fingers spread on the acanthus foliage of her left tail.
Given by Charles Fairfax Murray
Height: 24.6 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1917-07-12) by Murray, Charles Fairfax
16th Century, Late-17th Century, Early#
Circa
1560
CE
-
1630
CE
There are comparable knockers in the Stattliche Museen Skulpturensammlung Berlin (M.39/125, with an armorial cartouche at the top), the Walters Art Gallery Baltimore (54.17), and in the Quentin Collection. See Documentation Leithe-Jasper and Wengraf, 2004.
Venice
Casting (process)
: Bronze, cast and chased
Chasing
Accession number: M.29-1917
Primary reference Number: 13847
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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