IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 29589 accession number: M.2-1893 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 26 January 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Plaster cast. 'A draped figure of a woman, turned in profile to the left, standing before an altar beneath an oak tree; in her left hand she sholds an incense box and with her right drops a grain of incense into the fire on the altar. Behind is a girl attendant holding a cantharus and a bowl of fruit. On a table at the top is incised in capital letters the name SYMMACHORVM; there is a border of delicately carved anthemion ornament.' [Description taken from Longhurst, Margaret H., Catalogue of Carvings in Ivory, Victoria and Albert Museum, Part I, London, 1927, pp. 26-7] title: cast (sculpture) LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by the Department of Science and Art STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/29589 PEOPLE ------------------- woman attendant SUBJECTS ------------------- altar oak tree altar oak tree TECHNIQUES ---------- plaster cast casting (process) CATEGORIES ------ category: sculpture DATING ------ creation date: 1800 - 1900 creation date earliest: 1800 creation date latest: 1900 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 30 dimension: Width units: cm value: 12.4 CITATIONS -------- Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Architecture and Sculpture, Catalogue of Carvings in Ivory, Part I, Up to the Thirteenth Century ---