Fountain Figure of Abundance (c. 1530–40): Art, History and Details

Fountain Figure of Abundance (c. 1530–40) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

The spout coming out of the breast indicates that this figure was part of a table fountain--a specialty of Augsburg artists. Her nudity and naturalistic proportions demonstrate the impact of Italian Renaissance art in southern Germany during the early 1500s.

Object facts

• Title: Fountain Figure of Abundance
• Date: c. 1530–40
• Culture: Germany, Augsburg
• Type: Sculpture
• Technique: bronze
• Dimensions: Overall: 28.3 x 11.5 x 7 cm (11 1/8 x 4 1/2 x 2 3/4 in.)
• Collection: Sculpture
• Department: European Painting and Sculpture
• Accession number: 1971.104

Collection credit

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
• Fliegel, Stephen N. “The Cleveland Table Fountain and Gothic Automata.” Cleveland Studies in the History of Art 7 (2002): 6–49.

View the collection record

See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.