Abundance
Statuette
ca. 1560 (made)
ca. 1560 (made)
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This is a bronze statuette made in Nuremberg, Germany in about 1560. The statuette, representing the Abundance, is very close in style and technique to those on the Actaeon fountain and probably from the same foundry. This once formed part of a similar house-fountain complex. On a larger scale, bronze figures of this type formed part of public fountains which became important during this period as expressions of a community's civic identity.
Object details
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Object type | |
Title | Abundance (generic title) |
Materials and techniques | Bronze |
Brief description | Statuette, bronze, Abundance, figure from a house fountain, Germany (Nuremberg), about 1560 |
Physical description | A nude female figure, holding a cornucopia in her right hand and compressing her left breast with the other. The feet rest on a circular base having raised masks. |
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Object history | Bought in 1872. |
Production | Ascribed to the master signing G.F. |
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Summary | This is a bronze statuette made in Nuremberg, Germany in about 1560. The statuette, representing the Abundance, is very close in style and technique to those on the Actaeon fountain and probably from the same foundry. This once formed part of a similar house-fountain complex. On a larger scale, bronze figures of this type formed part of public fountains which became important during this period as expressions of a community's civic identity. |
Bibliographic reference | List of Objects in the Art Division, South Kensington, Acquired During the Year 1872, Arranged According to the Dates of Acquisition. London: Printed by George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode for H.M.S.O., p. 113 |
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Accession number | 1334-1872 |
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Record created | September 16, 2008 |
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