Angel with Pricket Candlestick
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.
History note: The Rt Hon. F. Leverton Harris by 1920, when he lent it to the Burlington Fine Arts Club Winter Exhibition, Winter Exhibition.
F. Leverton Harris Bequest
Height: 30.4 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1926) by Harris, Frederick Leverton
19th Century
Circa
1800
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1900
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
Casting (process) : Bronze, cast
Accession number: M.5-1926
Primary reference Number: 13876
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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