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Production: Unknown
One of two gilt pinewood wall sconces with a single light. Of regular cartouche shape with feather cresting and canthus foliage with diaper decoration. Carved and decorated with a pastoral scene of a woodcutter.
Related object: M.32A-1961.
Bequeathed by Louis C. G. Clarke, 1960.
Depth: 27.6 cm
Height: 63.1 cm
Width: 46.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1960) by Clarke, Louis Colville Gray
18th Century, Early#
Régence
Circa
1715
-
Circa
1723
Originally part of a larger set representing the months or the seasons?
Accession number: M.32B-1961
Primary reference Number: 77271
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Wall sconce" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/77271 Accessed: 2024-11-05 23:43:59
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