statuette
- Museum number
- WITT.284
- Description
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Statuette; bronze; Priapus, draped, wearing cap; with fruit in skirt held up by hands and erect phallus; two phalli suspended from right wrist.
- Dimensions
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Height: 6.80 inches
- Curator's comments
- Text from Witt Manuscript Catalogue 'Roman' no. 66:
'Statuette of a Priapic figure, holding fruit in the folds of his robe. Probably of the period of the XV century. In Bronze.'
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2007 Oct 11-2008 Jan 27, London, Barbican Gallery, 'Seduced: the art of sex'
- Acquisition date
- 1865
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- WITT.284
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 66 (Witt Collection MSS Catalogue - 'Roman' (yellow label))
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Miscellaneous number: W.284
