Christ Child Holding a Bird, anonymous, c. 1475 - c. 1525

Identification

Title(s)

Christ Child Holding a Bird

Object type

sculpture

Object number

BK-NM-11284

Inscriptions / marks

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

Description

Naakt knaapje met vogeltje in de handen.

Creation

Artist

'statue-squeezer': anonymous

Place

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

Dating

c. 1475 - c. 1525

Material and Technique

Physical features

pipeclay

Material

pipe clay

Measurements

height 5.7 cm

Subject

Where

Diepenveen

Acquisition and rights

Acquisition

transferred 1898

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

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Documentation

Beeldhouwkunst in het Rijksmuseum [Amsterdam], Jaap Leeuwenberg, cat.nr. 890
F. Moll, Kalender voor Protestanten, 1858, p. 93-98.

Persistent URL

To refer to this object please use the following persistent URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.25653

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