IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 38874 accession number: C.3084-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 16 August 2017 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Cupid at Vulcan's Forge, representing Fire from a Set of Elements, of 'Snowman' type. Glassy soft-paste porcelain, appearing creamy-white, moulded, and covered with thick clear lead-glaze with black speckles here and there, particularly on the top of the base, which has a 'dry' edge. The flat underside is unglazed and has a small circular ventialation hole under the forge, and a large rectangular one on the right under the figure. The base is rectangular and is decorated round the side and front edges with applied leaves and daisies. The infant Cupid sits on a low rock on the right, leaning forward towards the forge to warm his hands. He has short hair and is nude apart from a drape. The forge is square with incurved sides and has a flaming chimney with scrolls on the corners. A shovel and tongues rest against the front. title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Sir Hercules Read; sold Sotheby's, 6 November 1928, Catalogue of the varied and extensive collection of works of art, the property of Sir Hercules Read, 2nd day, part of lot 192; purchased by Hunt (or Hant) for £18 for both parts for 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 collection: J. W. L. Glaisher creditline: Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/38874 PEOPLE ------------------- Cupid SUBJECTS ------------------- fire hand-warming Vulcan's Forge fire hand-warming Vulcan's Forge TECHNIQUES ---------- glassy soft-paste porcelain, appearing creamy-white, moulded, and covered with thick clear lead-glaze with black speckles here and there, particularly on the top of the base, which has a 'dry' edge. The flat underside is unglazed and has a small circular ventialation hole under the forge, and a large rectangular one on the right under the figure moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: porcelain category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1750 - 1752 creation date earliest: 1750 creation date latest: 1752 culture: 18th Century, Mid CREATORS -------- maker: Longton Hall Porcelain Manufactory maker: Littler, William DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 9.9 dimension: Height units: cm value: 12.4 dimension: Width units: cm value: 16.1 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Varied and Extensive Collection of Works of Art, The Property of Sir Hercules Read, 6, Palace Gardens Terrace, W.8 Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Early Staffordshire China Longton Hall Porcelain English Ceramics Porcelain Figures of the 'Snowman' Technique 18th Century English Porcelain Figures 1745-1795 A technological study of English porcelains Report on the examination and analysis of some porcelains from Longton Hall and West Pans ---