Maker(s) &
Production:
, Greek Islands, Crete, possibly Crete
Category:
figure
Name:
statuette
Date:
circa 1901 — 2000
Period:
modern
Description:
female figurine, with hands raised to breasts
Find Spot:
'Knossos' Crete Greek Islands
Material:
marble ?
Dimension(s):
depth, 0.05, m
height, 0.222, m
width, 0.085, m
Acquisition:
bought; 1926; Seltman, C. T.
Exhibition(s):
I Turned It Into a Palace, Sydney Cockerell and the Fitzwilliam Museum. 2008-11-04 - 2009-03-17
Organiser: The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (Cambs.), UK
Venue: Mellon Gallery
Documentation:
Wace, A. J. B., Professor. 1927. A Cretan statuette in the Fitzwilliam Museum: a study in Minoan costume.
Review of B & N.
Budde, Ludwig. Nicholls, Richard V.. 1967. Catalogue of the Greek and Roman sculpture in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
no. 186, pl. 61
Gill, D.W.J.. 1994. Cretan Forgeries.
Source Title: Classical Association News(June-)
p.6
Butcher, K.. Gill, D.W.J.. 1993. The Director, the Dealer, the Goddess and Her Champions: The Acquisition of the Fitzwilliam Goddess.
Source Title: American Journal of Archaeology()
pp.383-401
1968. [Unknown: Art Bulletin September 1968].
Source Title: Art Bulletin(September-)
Review of B & N.
1926. [Unknown: The Times 6 February 1926].
Source Title: The Times(6-February-)
Review of B & N.
Accession:
Object Number: GR.1.1926
(Antiquities)
(record id: 68915; input: 2003-03-25; modified: 2016-04-28)
Permanent
Identifier:
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