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Mercury Instructing Cupid before Venus
Unidentified Liverpool pottery
(Pottery)
J. Sadler & G. Green
(Printer)
After
Correggio (Antonio Allegri)
(Painter)
Buff earthenware, tin-glazed white on the upper surface and transfer-printed in faded brown. Mercury Instructing Cupid before Venus; '88' border.
History note: Probably purchased from Sidney Hand, Grafton Street, London W.1 on 9 June 1922 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Depth: 0.6 cm
Height: 12.6 cm
Width: 12.6 cm
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Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1928-12-07)
by
Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Third quarter of 18th century
George III
Circa
1765
CE
-
1775
CE
The design is derived ultimately from Correggio's School of Love in the National Gallery, London, see Ray, 1973
Decoration composed of high-temperature colour ( faded brown) Front composed of tin-glaze
buff Earthenware
Accession number: C.1744-1928
Primary reference Number: 15454
Old object number: 1639
Stable URI
Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2022)
"Mercury Instructing Cupid before Venus"
Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/15454 Accessed: 2022-07-01 23:39:31
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Accession Number: PD.27-2003
Accession Number: 109
Accession Number: 128
Accession Number: 168
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