On loan to The Met The Met accepts temporary loans of art both for short-term exhibitions and for long-term display in its galleries.
Crab on a base with heads of children and lions' paws
The object was probably a quill holder. The crab, shown walking with raised pincers, was presumably cast from nature. It has been plausibly suggested that Ludovico del Duca made the piece for his Innsbruck employer, Archduke Ferdinand II, whose astrological sign was Cancer.
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