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Dancing Couple: C.3214-1928

Object information

Current Location: Gallery 26 (Lower Marlay)

Titles

Dancing Couple

Maker(s)

Factory: Le Nove Porcelain Factory

Entities

Categories

Description

Greyish-white hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded, and glazed

Greyish-hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded, and glazed. The underside is flat and unglazed and has a large round ventilation hole at the back. The figures are supported on a circular base with a mound in the centre, and a tree-trunk with open spaces between its roots at the back. On its top is a circular base of a missing feature. The couple are standing side by side with their inside arms linked, looking towards each other. The woman holds her apron out with her right hand and he has his left arm bent with the back of his hand to his thigh. The girl wears a hat decorated with ribbons perched on top of her head, a bodice with a basque, and a sash over her right shoulder and tied at the waist; a skirt, apron and buckled shoes. The man has a broad-brimmed hat turned up at the sides and decorated with a knot of ribbon and a long feather; a shirt, open jacket, a sash round the waist, ankle-length breeches, and buckle shoes.

Notes

History note: Mrs Mitchell (formerly Mrs Isted), Southampton, from whom purchased on 5 January 1920 for £7 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, Trinity College, Cambridge

Legal notes

Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest

Place(s) associated

  • Le Nove ⪼ The Veneto ⪼ Italy

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr

Dating

18th Century, third quarter
Production date: circa AD 1770

Note

Sold in 1920 as Capodimonte but thought to be Venetian by Glaisher, and attributed to Venice by Rackham (Documentation,1935). Attribution to Nove uncertain.

People, subjects and objects depicted

Materials used in production

Glaze
Hard-paste porcelain

Techniques used in production

Moulding
Glazing

References and bibliographic entries

Identification numbers

Accession number: C.3214-1928
Primary reference Number: 140262
Old object number: 3812
Stable URI

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Tuesday 18 August 2015 Last processed: Wednesday 13 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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