IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 13993 accession number: M.18-1979 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 3 July 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Bronze, cast The mortar is of inverted bell-shape, standing on a low, moulded foot. On one side there is a handle in the shape of a lizard, whose tail curls round the mortar behind it. The lower part of the mortar is decorated with acanthus leaves, the tips of which extend over a filet running round the body. Above there is a band of scrolls, inverted anthemions and suspended fruits. The everted lip of the mortar is decorated with a series of mouldings. title: mortar NOTES ----- type: history note value: E.G. Raphael Collection, Mayfair; with Copper & Adams by 16 Sept. 1943; purchased on 25 Feb. 1944 by Lt Col. the Hon. M.T. Boscawen, DSO, MC (1892-1958); lent to the Fitzwilliam Museum LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given anonymously collection of Lt. Col. the Hon. M.T. Boscawen, DSO. MC, in his memory STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/13993 SUBJECTS ------------------- lizard acanthus anthemion lizard acanthus anthemion TECHNIQUES ---------- bronze, cast casting (process) CATEGORIES ------ category: metalwork DATING ------ creation date: 1500 - 1530 creation date earliest: 1500 creation date latest: 1530 culture: 16th Century, Early# CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Venetian bronze-caster DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 14.5 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: The Boscawen Collection: Renaissance Bronzes title: Bronze: the Power of Life and Death title: Treasured Possessions from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment CITATIONS -------- The Boscawen Collection at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge Bronze: the Power of Life and Death Treasured Possessions from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: 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