IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 98337 accession number: M.4-2003 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 4 May 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Culverin or canon, Bronze, cast, chased, and patinated dark brown. Cast in three circular stages with projecting trunnions, and moulded muzzle, astragals, and sighted base-ring, decorated in high relief on the front stage of the chase, and on the prominent cascable with different bearded heads of satyrs. The satyr on the chase has upstanding hair, and an open mouth with jagged teeth. The satyr on the cascable has short scrolling horns. On the rear stage of the chase there is a rectangular panel in relief enclosing a standing warrior crowned by Victory, and on the reinforce is an inscription in relief, 'POLONIVS NICOLAI PERVSINI FECIT MDXXXIII'. object type: Culverin or canon, bronze, patinated dark brown, ornamented with different heads of satyrs on the cascable and chase, a relief inscription 'POLONIVS NICOLAI PERVSINI FECIT MDXXXIII', and a rectangular panel enclosing a standing warrior being crowned by Victory title: culverin NOTES ----- type: history note value: Probably the Duc d'Uzès; Galerie Ratton-Ladrière, 14 rue de Marignan, 75008 Paris; Peter Finer, The Old Rectory, Ilmington, Warwickshire, CV36 46Q; Danny Katz Ltd., 13 Old Bond Street, London, W1S 4SX, from whom purchased LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Purchased with the Boscawen Fund, and a grant from the National Art Collections Fund STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/98337 PEOPLE ------------------- satyr Victory warrior TECHNIQUES ---------- bronze, cast, chased, and patinated casting (process) TECHNIQUES ---------- patinating CATEGORIES ------ category: weapons DATING ------ creation date: 1533 - 1533 creation date earliest: 1533 creation date latest: 1533 culture: 16th Century, Mid CREATORS -------- maker: Apollonio di Niccolò Perusini EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Bronze: the Power of Life and Death CITATIONS -------- '5239 Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Apollonio di Nicolo Perusini (fl. 1533), Culverin or cannon Bronze: the Power of Life and Death --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/M_4_2003.jpg height: 500 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/mid_M_4_2003.jpg height: 329 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/M_4_2003.jpg height: 500 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/preview_M_4_2003.jpg height: 164 pixels width: 249 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/504/857/large_M_4_2003_mas.jpg height: 795 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/504/857/mid_M_4_2003_mas.jpg height: 388 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/M.4-2003_mas.tif surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/504/857/preview_M_4_2003_mas.jpg height: 194 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/627/716/large_M_4_2003_dc1.jpg height: 742 pixels width: 1023 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/627/716/mid_M_4_2003_dc1.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 499 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/627/716/M_4_2003_dc1.jpg height: 2997 pixels width: 4134 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/627/716/preview_M_4_2003_dc1.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels