Inkstand with an allegorical figure

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Inkstand with an allegorical figure (WA1899.CDEF.B1086)

© Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford (image)

Details

Title

Inkstand with an allegorical figure
Artist/maker

Peter Vischer the Younger (1487 - 1528) (sculptor)
Associated place

Nuremberg (place of creation)
Date

1525
Material and technique

brass, with patination and gilding
Object type

figure;

ink-well
Dimensions

19.2 cm (height)
18.3 cm figure (height)
8.3 cm inkwell (height)
11.2 x 11.1 cm base (length x width)
No. of items

1
Credit line

Bequeathed by C. D. E. Fortnum, 1899.
Museum location

Second floor | Gallery 56 | Arts of the Renaissance
Museum department

Western Art
Accession no.

WA1899.CDEF.B1086

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Further reading

Lloyd, Christopher, Renaissance Bronzes in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford, 1980), no.24

Warren, Jeremy, Vol 1 Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum Publications, 2014), pp. 318 - 329 no. 87

Diemer, Dorothea, ‘Peter Vischers Tintenfasser in formolos-formbar Bronze als kunstlerisches Material’, Magdalena Bushart, Henrike Haug (Hg.), (2016), illus. p. 43

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