Inkstand with an allegorical figure
On displayDetails
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Title
Inkstand with an allegorical figure
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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
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Object type
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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
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Credit line
Bequeathed by C. D. E. Fortnum, 1899.
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Museum location
Second floor | Gallery 56 | Arts of the Renaissance -
Museum department
Western Art
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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