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The Annunciation
Unknown
(Maker)
Gold, enamelled en ronde bosse with opaque white, and translucent blue, red and green enamels, on a later wooden base. The kneeling figures of the Virgin and the Angel Gabriel are surrounded by a low fence composed of three strands of twisted gold wire looped round short vertical poles.
History note: Geistliche Schatzkammer (Spiritual Treasury), Vienna; uncertain date in the 1860s, Salomon Weininger (1822-79); uncertain before testator
L.D. Cunliffe Bequest, 1937
Height: 3.7 cm
Width: 6.7 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
(1938)
by
Cunliffe, Leonard Daneham
Early 15th Century
Circa
1400
CE
-
Circa
1450
1450
CE
The Annunciation group was probably made in Paris, and may have formed part of a reliquary. It is unusual in showing the Annunciation taking place in an enclosed garden (hortus conclusus) instead of the more usual an interior setting.
Decoration: composed of enamel ( opaque white, and translucent blue, red and green) Base: composed of wood Figures:
Accession number: M/P.22-1938
Primary reference Number: 118318
Stable URI
Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2020) "Figure group"
Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/118318 Accessed: 2021-12-07 22:33:32
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Accession Number: C.957-1928
Accession Number: C.779-1928
Accession Number: M.8-2014
Accession Number: C.969-1928
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