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Appliqué in the Form of Paired Dolphins on a Scallop Shell

Italian 16th Century, 16th century

27 cm × 13 cm

About the size of a sheet of A4. You would need 6 of them to reach a person's height.

Against things you know the size of

Height: 13 cm
Width: 27 cm
Medium: gilded bronze//gilding rubbed above eyes and on upper part of shell
Kind: Sculpture
Where the measurement comes from: Measured by the museum. The dimension is the one recorded by the institution that holds the work.
Credit: Samuel H. Kress Collection

Five questions, answered from its own record. What is AGAI?

How big is it?: 27 cm × 13 cm. About the size of a sheet of A4. Measured by the museum.
When was it made, and when is it everyone’s?: Made 16th century. It is in the public domain, and National Gallery of Art publishes it for open use.
Whose is it?: Everyone’s to see. It is held by National Gallery of Art: Samuel H. Kress Collection.
How was it made?: Gilded bronze//gilding rubbed above eyes and on upper part of shell.
Who speaks for it?: Its record at National Gallery of Art. Measured by the museum. This gallery adds nothing it cannot cite.

This work is in the reference only. The gallery hangs a selection of the collection at real size.

One email. The smallest thing in the collection, the largest, and two that hang well together.

Scored on colour, shape, era and scale, the same way the gallery hangs them.