Venus Anadyomene
Maker:
Ludwigsburg Porcelain Factory
Modeller:
Beyer, Johann Christian Wilhelm
Venus standing on a rocky base beside a dolphin, hard-paste porcelain, enamelled and gilt
Greyish hard-paste porcelain, moulded, and painted overglaze in two shades of green, pale orange, pink, brown, and grey enamels and gilt. Venus stands on a rocky base, a dolphin and weeds on her left acting as a support. She is naked apart from two armbands, one on each arm, and a head band.
History note: Frank Stoner, London from whom purchased for £40 on 23 July 1913 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 33.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, third quarter#
Production date:
circa
AD 1765
This figure was derived from the antique marble Venus de' Medici in the Uffizzi in Florence, which was probably the best-known and most copied classical marble after the Apollo Belvedere. It modelled by Johann Christian Wilhelm Beyer (1725-1806) who was the chief modeller at the factory between 1759 and 1767, who had studied in Rome and was also influenced by the neoclassical theories of Winckelmann. The delicate colouring, which flatters the greyish Ludwigsburg paste, retains a faintly rococo character. The slender proportions of the figure may indicate that its immediate source was one of the many reduced-size bronzes, for example by Massimiliano Soldani-Benzi, several of which were in German collections.
Decoration
composed of
enamel
( two shades of green, pale orange, pink, brown, and grey)
gold
Base
Width 12.6 cm
clear
Glaze
greyish-white
Hard-paste porcelain
Press-moulding
: Greyish hard-paste porcelain, moulded, and painted overglaze in two shades of green, pale orange, pink, brown, and grey enamels and gilt
Glazing (coating)
Accession number: C.3189-1928
Primary reference Number: 118633
Old object number: 5015
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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