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Bull
Pottery: M. Mafra
Orange-coloured earthenware coloured manganese-brown, green, dark blue, and white, and lead-galzed. The bull stands facing to the right in profile on a rectangular base with stepped and moulded sides. The bull is streaked with dark manganese-brown and on its back with white; the top of the base is green and the lower edge of the base is blue, all very runny and streaky.
History note: Purchased in Gibraltar on 2 June 1908 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century
Circa
1800
CE
-
1899
CE
This bull appears to have been derived ultimately from the Roman marble bull found during the Renaissance in the port of Ostia and moved about 1790 and placed in the Museo Pio-Clementino in Rome. It was the model for many 16th and 17th century bulls in painting and sculpture. This model may have been based on a small bronze bull.
Accession number: C.1808A-1928
Primary reference Number: 72669
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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Accession Number: ANE.2.1942
Accession Number: E.28.1940
Accession Number: GR.132c.1908
Accession Number: 4016
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