Box in the form of a crab, 16th-17th century
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Box in the form of a crab, 16th-17th century
Box in the form of a Crab, Northern Italy, 16th - 17th century (1501 - 1700). Bronze, 15.5 x 12.8 cm. Location: Ashmolean Museum, Gallery 56: Arts of the Renaissance. Accession no. WA1947.191.174.
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Further reading: Jeremy Warren, Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum, vol. 1 (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum Publications, 2014), pp. 101-3, no. 28.