1592999438000 1312637261000 Standard Record object-30035 1747246338060 1714398271000 1747245848890 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-30035 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/30035 cfa08f28-e616-3a8a-a449-a3de043268fc 7 person reference agent-149975 adlib-agent-149975 e6f5b711-54e0-351d-a83c-758cad4cba19 angel person reference agent-156601 adlib-agent-156601 6c2fdccd-e64b-3de4-ae17-514b928cb321 Methuselah person reference agent-149799 adlib-agent-149799 5d0c9de7-e78b-3027-9f17-986966711aeb boy reference term-98228 adlib-term-98228 3d747999-296f-3944-9a84-2936c3ae9f5c sculpture reference term-32657 adlib-term-32657 48738423-5a06-33af-bb0f-e0e48e864331 paint Decoration reference term-106226 adlib-term-106226 194567f2-2bcd-3446-ae31-652386611815 painting reference term-23385 adlib-term-23385 4c17df77-7d4e-32bf-8ec9-921b71d218a2 religion Applied Arts Oak, carved and painted wood. Carved with a figure of a man sitting in the top of a tree, he grips a bough with his left hand, his right resting on the same branch, he is being spoken to by an angel in the right hand corner. Beside the trunk stands a young man, who holds in his left hand an axe, clasping a chopped off branch with his right. His right foot rests on a shortened branch, his left on the ground. At the base of the tree is an axe with a broken shaft and in the bottom left hand corner a small house. There is a lettered panel top and bottom and scrolls on the two sides: top panel, MAT(HU)SALE(H) BILD A/HVS; left and right scrolls, IVO BILD A HOV(SE) VORS(ELF) and BR(IN)G VI MIAS BOI SA??; and bottom panel, FATHER HOLD Y AX 990 reference exhibition-96 adlib-exhibition-96 4c752eac-b121-3fe2-a892-894e80871e66 English Medieval Art M.4-1953 1 accession number M.4-1953 30035 priref 30035 Art UK external ID CAM_CCF_M_4_1953 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/30035 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/30035 the lettering at the top seems to be spoken by the angel 'Methuselah build a house' top of panel MAT(HU)SALE(H) BILD A/HVS right and left scrolls spoken by Methuselah to the boy (possibly his grandson Noah), seem to be 'I will build a house for us - Bring up my axe boy' right and left scrolls IVO BILD A HOV(SE) VORS(ELF) and BR(IN)G VI MIAS BOI SA?? words spoken by the boy to his father, 'Father hold or behold the axe' bottom of panel FATHER HOLD Y AX reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Given by Walter Leake reference agent-156602 adlib-agent-156602 76985d14-3d6b-32b6-ad6b-1417c8c9b95f Leake, Walter 1953 1953 1953 given Entry date: 1953-05-28 1500 1500 1500 circa 1500 1550 first half of the 16th century 1 1550 1550 1550 maker reference agent-149652 adlib-agent-149652 0d4f90dc-b166-3d4b-b0db-25f4118b6e98 Unknown reference term-106602 adlib-term-106602 bbb4c00f-eefa-3d64-9441-7a75aa07736e 16th Century reference term-121393 adlib-term-121393 f714cb0f-eb87-3c1d-8072-03609bbcc0ad Henry VII reference term-120905 adlib-term-120905 2f12d808-33c5-3b9d-a1df-8d841d5bb32d Henry VIII reference term-107139 adlib-term-107139 9fd5ef13-3709-388f-b925-702787340e32 literal England England country England reference term-38432 adlib-term-38432 574d1fc9-f958-3d45-9e32-c114b0cf87b4 oak Height in 18 1/8 Width in 9 3/4 reference term-33639 adlib-term-33639 5a32eb6e-89fa-3c85-9ebd-1ab3db4e0e6f panel (wood) history note Bequeathed by an elderly King's Lynn lady to Fred Partridge (solicitor, died 1929). Given to W. Leake (Boynton House, Hunstanton, Norfolk) by the daughters of F. Partridge. reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum reference number literal name Sculpture UK Sculpture UK object name reference term-110120 adlib-term-110120 17e1af41-5128-3c5b-95cb-17e68fbdfa51 axe (tool) plant reference term-58471 adlib-term-58471 ce00216e-da4e-37b3-974c-c2b6377d6c19 tree place type reference term-61134 adlib-term-61134 fe8a38ad-bea1-327f-b7d9-04d67a1e5f07 house literal axe (tool) axe (tool) literal tree tree literal house house

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panel (wood) oak panel, carved and painted reference term-98865 adlib-term-98865 aeb90103-2708-3cdf-abc1-219c45a070e9 carving object OBJECT