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Winter from a Set of Seasons
Probably
Unknown
(Maker)
After
Passe, Crispijn I de
(Designer)
Plaque of Winter from a set of Seasons. Ivory, carved in low relief and mounted on thicker wood panel. Approximately square.
D. Winter: An indoor scene with an old man seated before a fire, and a boy kneeling to blow it with bellows. A cat is perched on the chair back. Through the open door, a dog barks at a peasant herding two pigs. In the distance a bridge and buildings. Inscribed at the top centre 'DECEMBRE' and at bottom centre 'HIVER'.
History note: Purchased by Henry Scipio Reitlinger (d. 1950) from Langstone in December, 1917 for £17.0.0; the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991.
H.S. Reitlinger Bequest, 1950, transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991.
Height: 11.5 cm
Width: 10.5 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
(1950)
by
Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
17th - 19th Century
Circa
1600
CE
-
Circa
1900
CE
After an engraved of Winter in a set of Twelve Months by Crispijn I de Passe
Mount composed of wood (plant material)
Carving : Ivory, carved in low relief and mounted on thicker wood panel
Accession number: M.3D-1991
Primary reference Number: 31801
Packing number: EWA 698-701
Stable URI
Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2022)
"Winter from a Set of Seasons"
Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/31801 Accessed: 2022-05-19 22:34:08
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Accession Number: C.3037-1928
Accession Number: C.3036D-1928
Accession Number: C.118-1918
Accession Number: C.3072-1928
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