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unknown lady
Manufacturer: Unknown
Parian porcelain figure of a woman holding calipers, standing and leaning on acolumn
History note: Unknown before G.D.V. Glynn; the estate of G. D. V. Glynn
Accepted by H. M. Government in lieu of Inheritance Tax from the estate of G. D. V. Glynn, and allocated to the Fitzwilliam Museum
Height: 37.9 cm
Length: 18.5 cm
Width: 13.9 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: Allocated (2016-01-25) by H.M. Government
2nd half of 19th century
Victoria I
Circa
1850
CE
-
1900
CE
Base Length 18.5 cm Width 11.4 cm
Accession number: C.1020-2016
Primary reference Number: 216036
Old number: 612
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) "unknown lady" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/216036 Accessed: 2023-05-31 11:17:00
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Accession Number: 3883
Accession Number: 3868
Accession Number: C.1016-2016
Accession Number: C.1022-2016
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