IDENTIFIERS
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id:	13767
accession number:	M.8-1997

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Monday 18 December 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Bronze, cast. Grotesque figure of a wingless, long-legged bird-like creature. It has a bird-like head and scrawny outstretched neck, beak open wide, the body of a snail and the legs akin to those of an ostrich.
title:	animal figure

NOTES
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type: history note
value: With Cecil Leitch & Kerin by Dec. 1937 when sold to Lt. Col. the Hon. M.T. Boscawen, DSO, MC; bequeathed to his sister, the Hon. Mrs Pamela Sherek


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	Boscawen Collection
creditline: Bequeathed by Mrs Pamela Sherek from the collection of the late Lt. Col. the Hon. M.T. Boscawen, DSO, MC, in his memory.

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/13767


SUBJECTS
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bird
bird



TECHNIQUES
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bronze, cast
casting (process)

CATEGORIES
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category: sculpture

DATING
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creation date:	1600 - 1630
creation date earliest:	1600
creation date latest:	1630
culture:	17th Century, Early#

CREATORS
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maker: Bolten, Arent van
maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 17.8



EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	The Boscawen Collection: Renaissance Bronzes
CITATIONS
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The Boscawen Collection at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
An Exhibition of Sculpture and Works of Art
Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
The Grotesques ascribed to Arent van Bolten
Beeldhouwkunst 1500-1800 in de collectie van het Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Bronssculptuur
European Sculpture and Works of Art
From Vulcan's Forge, Bronzes from the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam 1450-1800
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