Christ Child Holding a Bird

anonymous, c. 1475 - c. 1525

Naakt knaapje met vogeltje in de handen.

  • Artwork typesculpture
  • Object numberBK-NM-11284
  • Dimensionsheight 5.7 cm
  • Physical characteristicspipeclay

Identification

  • Title(s)

    Christ Child Holding a Bird

  • Object type

  • Object number

    BK-NM-11284

  • Description

    Naakt knaapje met vogeltje in de handen.

  • Inscriptions / marks

    inscription, on the outside of the right leg, in ink or black paint: ‘WM.88.’

  • Part of catalogue

Creation

  • Creation

    • 'statue-squeezer': anonymous, Northern Netherlands
    • Utrecht (possibly)
    • Deventer (possibly)

  • Dating

    c. 1475 - c. 1525

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Material and technique

  • Physical description

    pipeclay

  • Dimensions

    height 5.7 cm

This work is about

  • Place

Acquisition and rights

  • Copyright

    Public domain

  • Provenance

    …; excavated at the site of the convent of the Sisters of the Common Life at Diepenveen (near Deventer), date unknown; collection professor Willem Moll (1812-1879), Amsterdam, in or before 1858;{W. Moll, ‘Diepenveensche oudheden’, _Kalender voor Protestanten in Nederland_, Amsterdam 1858, pp. 93-98, esp. p. 96.} Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden, date unknown; transferred to the museum, 1898

Documentation

  • F. Moll, Kalender voor Protestanten, 1858, p. 93-98.

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