IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 216122 accession number: C.11-2017 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Wednesday 7 June 2017 updated: Wednesday 15 July 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Square humanoid figure with large bird-like head and crocodile mouth. The clay surface has been beaten and covered in red and brown colours over copper lustre, giving an illusion of bronze. The torso is upright and seated with short folded legs and very thin arms held loosely to the side. The head is large and rounded, partially covered in white, with two lidded eyes turned on their sides. Long, pointed, red-brown jaws emerge vertically from the top of the head, open to reveal uneven white teeth and a red tongue. Thick hemp-like string is tied tightly around the neck and across the head through the jaws. The right wrist and left elbow are wound with thinner string. object type: Earthenware, modelled and decorated with slip, colours, glaze, lustre and string. title: sculpture NOTES ----- type: history note value: Bought from the Marsden Woo gallery, with the Dr John Shakeshaft Fund. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Bought with the Dr John Shakeshaft Fund, 2017. STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/216122 SUBJECTS ------------------- crocodile Lascaux TECHNIQUES ---------- Earthenware, modelled and decorated with slip, colours, glaze, lustre and string. modelling CATEGORIES ------ category: Ceramic Sculpture category: Studio Ceramics DATING ------ creation date: 2016 - 2016 creation date earliest: 2016 creation date latest: 2016 culture: 21st Century, Early CREATORS -------- maker: Jameson, Kerry DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 15.5 dimension: Height units: cm value: 57 dimension: Width units: cm value: 26 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Alchemy CITATIONS -------- Under the Gaze of Beasts ---