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Moses Returning from the Mount and the Children of Israel Dancing Round the Golden Calf
Unknown
(Production)
Earthenware, tin-glazed white on the upper surface and painted in blue. In a square, framed by a scrolled border, 'Moses Returning from the Mount and the Children of Israel Dancing Round the Golden Calf'. Inscribed at lower centre 'Exod 32:19'. There is a hole in the top right and lower left corner.
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Depth: 0.7 cm
Height: 12.4 cm
Width: 12.6 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
(1928)
by
Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th century
Circa
1700
CE
-
1800
CE
Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( blue) Front composed of tin-glaze
Accession number: C.2804.25-1928
Primary reference Number: 15662
Stable URI
Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2022)
"Moses Returning from the Mount and the Children of Israel Dancing Round the Golden Calf"
Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/15662 Accessed: 2022-08-13 07:49:44
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Accession Number: P.10004-R
Accession Number: PD.155-1985
Accession Number: 262
Accession Number: 2740
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