{"meta":{"version":"2.1","_links":{"self":{"href":"https://api.vam.ac.uk/v2/object/O312006"},"collection_page":{"href":"https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O312006/"}},"images":{"_primary_thumbnail":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2016JB0804/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg","_iiif_image":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2016JB0804/","_alt_iiif_image":[],"imageResolution":"high","_images_meta":[{"assetRef":"2016JB0804","copyright":"© Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false},{"assetRef":"2006AE5096","copyright":"© Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false},{"assetRef":"2016JB0805","copyright":"© Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false}]},"see_also":{"_iiif_pres":"https://iiif.vam.ac.uk/collections/O312006/manifest.json","_alt_iiif_pres":[]}},"record":{"systemNumber":"O312006","accessionNumber":"M.49-1952","objectType":"Lamp","titles":[{"title":"Grotesque Animal","type":""}],"summaryDescription":"This bronze is made in the Netherlands in the first half of the 17th century in the style of Arent van Bolten of Zwolle (ca. 1573-1624/26)\r\nThis grotesque bird is in the form of a shell-backed monster with bird's legs. The lamp is located in the creature's open mouth. It is mounted on an oblong marble base.\r\nArent van Bolten was a silversmith and sculptor, but got especially well known for his drawings. His most frequent subjects were grotesque figures and monsters, biblical and mythological scenes and scenes from peasant life.","physicalDescription":"This grotesque bird is made in the form of a shell-backed monster with bird's legs. The lamp is in the creature's open mouth. On an oblong marble base.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Bolten, Arent van (of Zwolle)","id":"A10732"},"association":{"text":"sculptor","id":"x43862"},"note":"in the style of"}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"bronze","id":"AAT10957"}],"techniques":[],"materialsAndTechniques":"Bronze","categories":[{"text":"Bronze","id":"THES49033"},{"text":"Lighting","id":"THES48925"},{"text":"Household objects","id":"THES48939"},{"text":"Sculpture","id":"THES48896"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"SCP","id":"THES48600"},"images":["2016JB0804","2006AE5096","2016JB0805"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"117","id":"THES49906"},"free":"","case":"1","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Lamp","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Amsterdam","id":"x28722"},"association":{"text":"Model","id":"x38723"},"note":"Possibly "},{"place":{"text":"Zwolle","id":"x37446"},"association":{"text":"Model","id":"x38723"},"note":"Possibly "},{"place":{"text":"France","id":"x28849"},"association":{"text":"cast","id":"x32615"},"note":"possibly "}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"ca. 1620","earliest":"1615-01-01","latest":"1624-12-31"},"association":{"text":"model","id":"x38723"},"note":""},{"date":{"text":"ca. 1650-1700","earliest":"1645-01-01","latest":"1700-12-31"},"association":{"text":"Cast","id":"x32615"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Given by Dr W.L. Hildburgh","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Width","value":"16","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"Object","note":""},{"dimension":"Depth","value":"9.5","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"Object","note":""},{"dimension":"Height","value":"18","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"Object","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"13.2","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"Base","note":""},{"dimension":"Depth","value":"9.4","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"Base","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"Dimensions were taken by SCP on 27.10.14 for <b>Bronze Zoo: A Sculptural Menagerie</b>","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"Given by Dr. W. L. Hildburgh, F. S. A., 1952.\n\nHistorical significance: Several other examples have turned up.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Lamp, Grotesque Animal, bronze, after Arent or Arnold van Bolten (c.1573-before 1633), model Amsterdam or Zwolle ca. 1620, cast possibly France ca. 1650-1700\r\n","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Leeuwenberg, Jaap, 'The Grotesques ascribed to Arent van Bolten', in: <u>Apollo</u>, April 1966, pp. 272-277"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"<u>Dawn of the Golden Age. Northern Netherlandish Art 1580-1620</u>, exhibition catalogue, Rijksmuseum, pp. 410-411, cat. 67"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Binnebeke, Emile von. <u>Bronze Sculpture: Sculpture from 1500-1800 in the Collection of the Boymans-van-Beuningen Museum</u>, Rotterdam, 1994, pp. 154, 5, cat. no. 48"}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"bird","id":"x35043"},{"text":"grotesque","id":"x44711"},{"text":"lamp","id":"x36234"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["M.49-1952"],"accessionNumberNum":"49","accessionNumberPrefix":"M","accessionYear":1952,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":["2016JF3001","2023NN4087"],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-22","recordCreationDate":"2009-06-24","availableToBook":false}}