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Abundance

Statuette
ca. 1560 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

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

Categories
Object type
TitleAbundance (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.
Dimensions
  • Height: 30.48cm
  • Weight: 2.2kg
Object history
Bought in 1872.
Production
Ascribed to the master signing G.F.
Subjects depicted
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
Collection
Accession number
1334-1872

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Record createdSeptember 16, 2008
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