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Portrait Medallion of a Lady
Ivory, carved in high relief, with a horizontally chiselled ground. The sitter faces front with her head turned slightly to her left. Her hair is elaborately dressed with curls on top of her head, a coil at the nape of her neck, and two ringlets falling down over each shoulder. She wears a decolleté gown with a bow or jewelled bow at the centre front.
History note: Purchased from Parsons, July 1917 for £3.0.0.; H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991.
H.S. Reitlinger Bequest, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991
Height: 7.8 cm
Width: 6.0 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
Early 18th Century
Production date:
circa
AD 1700
Decoration composed of ivory
Carving : Ivory carved in high relief, with a horizontally chiselled ground
Accession number: M.4-1991
Primary reference Number: 31821
Packing number: EWA 148A
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2023) "Portrait Medallion of a Lady" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/31821 Accessed: 2023-04-02 13:35:21
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Accession Number: C.132-2015
Accession Number: C.8F-1975
Accession Number: C.8G-1975
Accession Number: C.8A-1975
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