Current Location: In storage
Titles
Angel with Pricket Candlestick
Maker(s)
Unknown
Entities
Categories
Description
Hollow cast bronze, with additional pouring to imitate crude casting. The stocky figure is draped in ample folds of a tunic and stands holding, at arms length with both hands, a short pricket candlestick. The pose is simple, the left leg bending slightly forward, a slight contraposto of the body and the head turned slightly to the right. The head is crowned with a laurel wreath having a rose in the front and at the back. The face and arms are very poorly modelled, but the drapery is of high quality. The hem of the robe has a narrow border decoration. There are the remains of the wings still projecting from the shoulders. The hair hangs in thick ringlets around her neck.
Notes
History note: The Rt Hon. F. Leverton Harris by 1920, when he lent it to the Burlington Fine Arts Club Winter Exhibition, Winter Exhibition.
Legal notes
F. Leverton Harris Bequest
Measurements and weight
Height: 30.4 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1926)
by
Harris, Frederick Leverton
Dating
19th Century
Circa
1800
-
1900
Note
07.10.1963 John Pope Henessey thinks this bronze is probably 19th century
16.08.1976 Technically characteristic of 19th century fake: rolled, after-cast internal roughness
People, subjects and objects depicted
Materials used in production
Bronze
Techniques used in production
Casting (process)
: Bronze, cast
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: M.5-1926
Primary reference Number: 13876
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Saturday 14 March 2020
Last processed: Friday 8 December 2023
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
