IDENTIFIERS
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id:	30460
accession number:	M.5-1996

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

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Bust of Madame Sappé. Wax, coloured flesh, red, grey and yellowish-grey. Bust of an old and wrinkled woman in profile to right with her hair swept up into a high chignon, wearing a low-necked dress edged with lace. Black background. In a rectangular gilt-wood frame with a glass top, set in a larger ebonized wood frame.
A pair with M.6-1996.
title:	bust

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
creditline: Bequeathed by Edward Joseph Pyke

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/30460

PEOPLE
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Sappé, Madame




CATEGORIES
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category: sculpture

DATING
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creation date:	1775 - 1800
creation date earliest:	1775
creation date latest:	1800
culture:	18th Century, Late

CREATORS
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maker: Curtius, Philippe
maker: Tussaud, Marie Gresholtz
maker: Hardy, Bernhard Caspar


CITATIONS
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Biographical Dictionary of Wax Modellers
An Exhibition of Medieval Renaissance and Islamic Works of Art
Important European Sculpture and Works of Art, 2nd July 1996
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