Museum number
C874
Object
Cupid holding a bow & quiver (bow missing), bronze, workshop of Severo Calzetta da Ravenna (Padua), c.1550
Description
Small bronze statuette of a naked figure of Cupid, left leg forward, right back, on an irregular rectangular base, the right arm lowered but outstretched, right hand gripping (presumably a bow which is missing), left arm bent, the hand on a quiver whose strap is hung across chest from the right shoulder, head raised and looking up to the left, mounted on a nineteenth century three-coloured square marble pedestals ( paired with C 899 pedestal)Cupid with Quiver.
Materials
Bronze
Inscription
None
On display?
Yes

Further description

Simple name
Sculpture
Subject
Allegorical
Dimensions
regular: 13.5cm (h)
Boy Workshop of Severo Calzetta da Ravenna (Padua) Bronze, about 1550; marble base, nineteenth century C874

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