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  2. Paper: Nature and Art in the Renaissance
  3. Unit: Collecting art and nature: cabinets of curiosities

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.

Copyright: This image should not be reproduced or distributed in any form (including email, website, social media, printed publications etc.) without the express permission of the Ashmolean Museum. If any reproduction permissions are required, please contact the Ashmolean Picture Library via picture.library@ashmus.ox.ac.uk.

Further reading: Jeremy Warren, Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum, vol. 1 (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum Publications, 2014), pp. 101-3, no. 28.