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The V&A sculpture is close in style to the work of the so-called Master of the Furies (active ca. 1610-20), an anonymous artist who worked in ivory probably in Salzburg, in the early 17th century, and is almost certainly by him. The tightly-curled hair and elegant elongated figure in particular recall some of his other works, such as the Furies and the Standard Bearer in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. It seems highly probable that this figure represents Adam, and that it was once paired with a figure of Eve, now lost. \n\nVery little is known about this artist, whose distinctive works were almost certainly executed in the early decades of the seventeenth century. His name was first coined in the 1970s by Erwin Neumann, a curator at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, who grouped together a number of ivory groups and statuettes with a particular energetic stylistic quality, notably figures of the Furies. Subsequent scholars have added further ivories to this group, and seventeen were exhibited in Frankfurt in 2006. The Salzburg provenance of some of the works has led to suggestions that the sculptor was Austrian, working for the Archbishop of Salzburg, Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau, or one of his successors.","physicalDescription":"Adam stands holding an apple in his left hand, and probably the remains of a fig branch in his left hand, perhaps originally joined onto the broken branch and foliage concealing his nudity. He turns his face upwards and to his left with an anguished expression. His bent right leg is supported beneath the foot with two pieces of ivory.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Master of the Furies","id":"A19060"},"association":{"text":"maker","id":"AAT251917"},"note":"This anonymous master made a group of important and distinctive ivories in the early 17th century, probably in Salzburg."}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"ivory","id":"AAT11857"}],"techniques":[{"text":"carving","id":"AAT53149"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Ivory","categories":[{"text":"Sculpture","id":"THES48896"},{"text":"Religion","id":"THES48900"},{"text":"Christianity","id":"THES48978"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"SCP","id":"THES48600"},"images":["2006AE9409","2013GD0136","2017JY1362"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"6","id":"THES49750"},"free":"","case":"CA6","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Statuette","id":"x45409"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Austria","id":"x28728"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":"Probably Salzburg."}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"ca. 1610","earliest":"1605-01-01","latest":"1614-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":"The dates of this artist and his work are uncertain, but this is likely to have been made in the second decade of the 17th century."}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"25.7","unit":"cm","qualifier":"With socle","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Height","value":"22.7","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"ivory alone","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"Formerly in the collection of Mr H. Avray Tipping. Bought for £46 at Sotheby's, London, 3 December 1930, lot 148.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Statuette, ivory, of Adam, by the Master of the Furies, Austrian (perhaps Salzburg), ca. 1610","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"<font -u>Victoria and Albert Museum, Review of the Principal Acquisitions During the Year 1930.</font> London, p. 8, fig. 4"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Theuerkauff, C. <font -u>Die Bildwerke der Skulpturengalerie Berlin. II. Die Bildwerke der Elfenbein des 16-19 Jahrhunderts.</font> Berlin 1986, p. 122"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Beck, H. et al. <font -u>Der Furienmeister.</font> Petersberg, 2006' pp. 96-101"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Cf. <font -u>Bulletin of Metropolitan Museum.</font> vol. XIX. Nov, 1924, p. 290"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Cf. 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