IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 41771 accession number: C.28-1932 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, figure of Venus, press-moulded, with hand-modelled details, painted underglaze in blue, and overglaze in blue, turquoise, green, yellow, flesh-pink, pink, puce, mauve, brown, and grey enamels, and gilt. The concave underside is glazed including all but one of the feet. The rounded rectangular base has five scroll feet, with a central pierced rocaille motif between the front two. At the back there is a tall tree stump with a square aperture at the bottom to take an attachment, and a branch on each side bearing polychrome applied flowers and leaves. Venus stands with her left foot crossed over her right, and leans back against the top of the tree on her left elbow. She holds out her right hand towards the viewer. She has reddy cheeks, and brown hair partly drawn back into a bun and partly loose. She wears a gold necklace and a mauve and gold bangle on her right upper arm; a flowered tunic with blue and gold edges which is long at the back, thigh-length at the front and off the right shoulder so as to reveal her right bosom. Across her back she has a turquoise drape with a dark pink lining attached to her left shoulder by a brooch. She has underglaze blue and pink toeless boots. On the ground to her left there are two turtledoves painted in pink and dark grey among flowers and leaves, and to her right a group of flowers and leaves. The base is picked out in underglaze blue, turquoise, puce, and gold. object type: Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, figure of Venus, press-moulded, with hand-modelled details, painted underglaze in polychrome enamels, and gilt. title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Unknown before donor, Mrs W.D. (Frances Louisa) Dickson, Bournemouth 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/41771 PEOPLE ------------------- Venus SUBJECTS ------------------- doves doves TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded, with hand-modelled details, painted underglaze in polychrome enamels, and gilt press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1765 - 1770 creation date earliest: 1765 creation date latest: 1770 culture: 18th Century, second half culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Bow Porcelain Manufactory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 27.8 CITATIONS -------- Bow Porcelain Figures circa 1748-1774 Christie's Sale Catalogue, 16th November 1992 ---