IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 13898 accession number: M.5-1938 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Bronze, cast, with light brown patina, highly polished. The nude youth kneels on his left knee with back and head bent forward to support a large shell, which he holds with both hands. The bronze is accompanied by an oval, grey-veined yellow marble base, moulded at the top and bottom, with screwed into the top with two screws, a smaller, oval wooden platform (not accessioned). title: saltcellar NOTES ----- type: history note value: Cavendish-Bentinck Collection, 1891; 1893 exhibited at the New Gallery; by 1904 William Newall, by whom lent to the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition (case I no. 5); His Sale, Christie's, London, 27 June 1922, 'Catalogue of the collection of objects of art chiefly of the Renaissance period, bronzes, majolica, sculpture and furniture . . . formed by that well-known connoisseur William Newall, Esq., deceased late of Redheath, Croxley Green, Herts', lot. 80 - illustrated; bought by Durlacher (£462); L.D. Cunliffe LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: Leonard D. Cunliffe creditline: L.D. Cunliffe Bequest, 1937 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/13898 PEOPLE ------------------- man SUBJECTS ------------------- shell kneeling shell kneeling TECHNIQUES ---------- bronze, cast, with light brown patina, highly polished casting (process) TECHNIQUES ---------- patinating TECHNIQUES ---------- polishing CATEGORIES ------ category: sculpture category: metalwork DATING ------ creation date: 1800 - 1900 creation date earliest: 1800 creation date latest: 1900 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Campagna, Girolamo maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 20.5 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Winter Exhibition 1904 title: Treasured Possessions from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment CITATIONS -------- Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge Venezianische Bildhauer Der Renaissance Catalogue of European Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum, 1540 to the present day 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