IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 140317 accession number: C.5-1956 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Thursday 17 December 2015 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Hard-paste porcelain painted in pale greyish-blue, green, flesh-pink, pink, a little red, pale grey, and brown enamels and gilded. The glazed underside is divided front to back by a low wall. The flat area on the right has a round ventilation hole, and the left area is concave. The base is moulded to resemble clouds, and rises up into a swirling pedestal which supports the figure. It is painted in alternate areas of pale greyish-blue and pink which overlap and appear mauve. The slightly podgy child Venus semi-reclines on the cloud, leaning on her right hand and holding her left up in front of her. She has her pale grey hair swept up into a knot on top of her head and wears a gold frontlet decorated with two pink flowers, two small blue flowers, and two leaves. Her skin is delicately tinted flesh pink, and she has brown eyes, and pale red lips. She is nude and sits on a green drape. The dove perches on the lower cloud to the viewer's left. title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: G.W. Kerin, London LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Purchased with the Dr. F.R. Cowper Reed Fund STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/140317 SUBJECTS ------------------- dove dove TECHNIQUES ---------- press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: hard-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1770 - 1775 creation date earliest: 1770 creation date latest: 1775 culture: 18th Century, third quarter CREATORS -------- maker: Höchst Porcelain Manufactory maker: Melchior, Johann Peter DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 14.8 dimension: Height units: in value: 5⅞ CITATIONS -------- Höchster Porzellan 1746-1796 ---