IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 140257 accession number: C.3207-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 1 March 2016 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Greyish-white hardpaste porcelain, press-moulded in high relief, and coated on the front with glaze which appears brownish where it lies thickly. Rectangular; warped in firing so that the unglazed reverse is slightly convex. Ariadne reclines on a couch on the right under two trees with a curtain draped over their branches to form an awning. Further to the right is a dancing putto, and a woman kneeling with her back to the viewer, holding a shallow basket of flowers. Ariadne looks towards her, while holding out a fruit/flower to a putto who is climbing onto the end of the couch. Behind him another putto kneels supporting on his head a shallow basket of fruit. Behind him are two trees in low relief. Further to the left girl and boy move to the left, the latter blowing a long pipe towards three birds flying overhead. Below, a putto plays with a swan, and on the extreme left there is a seated putto and a standing putto beside a bearded herm of Bacchus bedecked with a garland of flowers. object type: Greyish-white hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded and glazed title: panel NOTES ----- type: history note value: Sotheby’s, 14 November, 1924, lot 30; bought for £2.5.0 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, Trinity College, Cambridge LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/140257 PEOPLE ------------------- Ariadne Bacchus putto SUBJECTS ------------------- couch bird couch bird TECHNIQUES ---------- greyish-white soft-paste porcelain, press-moulded, and glazed. press-moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: hard-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1745 - 1750 creation date earliest: 1745 creation date latest: 1750 culture: 18th Century, Mid culture: Marchese Ginori period CREATORS -------- maker: Doccia Porcelain Factory maker: Mignard, Pierre maker: Poilly, Jean-Baptiste de DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 15.2 dimension: Width units: cm value: 21.6 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures Doccia Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Die Modellsammlung der Porzellanmanufaktur Doccia Two Pieces of Porcelain Decorated by Ignaz Preissler in the J. Paul Getty Museum ---