IDENTIFIERS
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id:	13847
accession number:	M.29-1917

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Wednesday 27 September 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: 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.
object type: Doorknocker of bronze, cast in the form of a nereid or tritoness
title:	door knocker

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: Given by Charles Fairfax Murray

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/13847

PEOPLE
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tritoness




TECHNIQUES
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bronze, cast and chased
casting (process)
TECHNIQUES
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chasing

CATEGORIES
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category: metalwork
category: sculpture

DATING
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creation date:	1560 - 1630
creation date earliest:	1560
creation date latest:	1630
culture:	16th Century, Late-17th Century, Early#

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 24.6



CITATIONS
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Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
European Bronzes from the Quentin Collection
Bronzetti Veneziani, Die venezianischen Kleinbronzen der Renaissance aus dem Bode-Museum Berlin
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