Inkstand with an allegory

Details

• Title

  Inkstand with an allegory

• Artist/maker

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

• Associated place

  Europe › Germany › Bavaria › Nuremberg (place of creation)

• Date

  c. 1515 - 1520

• Material and technique

  brass

• Object type

  communications equipment › art/writing equipment › ink-container › ink-pot;

  sculpture › figure

• Dimensions

  16.6 cm (height)
  15.7 cm female figure (height)
  11.2 x 11 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.B1085

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