IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 140326 accession number: C.57-1950 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 15 July 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded, and painted overglaze in blue, greyish-green, green, yellow, pink, dark pink, pale purple, a little red, several shades of brown, and grey enamels, and gilded. The open underside of the base is glazed and has a round ventilation hole under Venus, a smaller one under Cupid and an opening through to the top of the tree trunk. The oblong base has an irregularly shaped rocky edge, painted round the edges in green and grey-green to resemble grass; a few roots project at the viewer's right end. It rises up into a low rock, with a projecting tree stump and roots at the viewer's left at the back. Venus sits on the rock with her left leg bent and right straight. She extends her right arm behind Cupid and looks down towards him. Her right elbow is bent and she holds her hand over a flower resting on the drape which passes around her thighs and falls down the back of the rock . She has delicately tinted cheeks, brown eyes, a pale red mouth, and brown hair dressed in a high knot, and wears a narrow frontlet decorated with a bunch of flowers. Her white drape is striped in blue with a purple geometrical pattern between the stripes. Cupid sits on a rock to her right (viewer's left) holding up his arms towards her. He is nude and has a quiver suspended on a purple ribbon. His golden bow rests on the ground below Venus' right leg. The base between Cupid and Venus is strewn with orange and dark pink applied flowers. object type: hard-paste porcelain, painted in enamels, and gilded title: figure group NOTES ----- type: history note value: uncertain before donor, Mrs W.D. (Frances Louis) Dickson LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by Mrs W.D. Dickson STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/140326 PEOPLE ------------------- Venus Cupid SUBJECTS ------------------- rock tree rock tree TECHNIQUES ---------- Hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded, assembled, glazed, painted in blue, greyish-green, green, yellow, pink, dark pink, pale purple, a little red, several shades of brown, and grey enamels, and lightly gilt. moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: hard-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1765 - 1770 creation date earliest: 1765 creation date latest: 1770 culture: 18th Century, third quarter CREATORS -------- maker: Höchst Porcelain Manufactory maker: Melchior, Johann Peter DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 20 dimension: Height units: in value: 7⅞ dimension: Length units: cm value: 23.5 dimension: Length units: in value: 9¼ CITATIONS -------- Johann Peter Melchior 1747-1825, Bildhauer und Modellmeister im Höchst, Frankenthal und Nymphenburg ---