Oil-lamp in the form of a boat
On display
Details
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Title
Oil-lamp in the form of a boat
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Artist/maker
Andrea Briosco ("il Riccio") (c. 1470 - 1532) -
Associated place
Italy (probable) (probable place of creation) -
Date
1500 - 1510 -
Material and technique
bronze
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Object type
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Dimensions
5.7 cm (height)
16.9 cm (length)
6.8 cm (width) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Presented by C. D. E. Fortnum, 1888.
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Museum location
Second floor | Gallery 56 | Arts of the Renaissance -
Museum department
Western Art
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Accession no.
WA1888.CDEF.B1100
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Further reading
Wilhelm von Bode, ‘Die Italienischen Bronzestatuetten der Renaissance’, (1922), p.49 Pl.61
Lloyd, Christopher, Renaissance Bronzes in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford, 1980), no.8
Allen, Denise, Motture, Peta, Andrea Riccio: Renaissance master of bronze (New York, 2008), illus. 17
Warren, Jeremy, Vol 1 Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum Publications, 2014), pp. 104 - 108 no. 29
