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Sculptor:
Grandi, Gian Girolamo
(Putto)
Sculptor:
Grandi, Vincenzo
Copper alloy, probably bronze, cast. Vase-shaped perfume burner, with pierced sides, and two v-shaped handles, the cover surmounted by a standing putto leaning on an extinguished torch.
History note: Collection of Gabriel Boisot, baron de Vaire, Besançon, France, by 1719; with Cecil Leitch and Kerin Ltd, London, by December 1937; sold by C.G. Cooper (now co-partner of Copper & Adams, Finchley) to Lt Col the Hon. M.T. Boscawen, DSO, MC (1892-1958), 1940 (£446. 5. 0.); bequeathed to his sister, the Hon. Mrs Pamela Sherek; bequeathed by the Hon. Mrs Pamela Sherek, from the collection of the late Lt Col the Hon. M.T. Boscawen, DSO, MC, in his memory.
Bequeathed by the Hon. Mrs Pamela Sherek, from the collection of the late Lt Col. the Hon. M.T. Boscawen, DSO, MC, in his memory
Height: 34.1 cm
Width: 20.9 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1997-01-27) by Sherek, Pamela
16th Century, Mid
Circa
1530
CE
-
1560
CE
Purchased in 1940 as by Riccio. By 1997 considered to have been made in Padua or Trent by one or both of the Grandi. The putto was formerly thought to be perhaps German, late 15th or early 16th century. It has been fixed to the lid in the form of a funerary genius, which is a later fitting, made to match the urn.
probably bronze
Copper alloy
Bronze
Accession number: M.7 & A-1997
Primary reference Number: 14011
Old object number: B.7.
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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