IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 42667 accession number: C.38-1932 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain Time Clipping the Wings of Love, slip-cast, lead-glazed, and painted in blue (a little), turquoise-green, green (a little), flesh pink, pink, puce, purple, brown, and black enamels, and gilt. The unglazed underside has one obvious patch mark and a central circular ventilation hole. The group is on a high, heavily scrolled base picked out in turquoise-green and gold. Winged and bearded Time is seated on a tree trunk with his right leg forward, the foot resting on a sheaf of arrows. He holds Cupid over his left knee with his left hand and is about to clip Cupid's wing with a pair of small shears held in his right hand. Time wears a purple robe decorated with large and small circular motifs, which is held up by red cross bands. Cupid has a yellow drape. On the base to the viewer's right there is a crown, a sceptre, and an hourglass, and on the left, a globe. object type: Soft-paste porcelain figure of Time Clipping the Wings of Love, slip-cast, lead-glazed, and painted in blue (a little), turquoise-green, green (a little), flesh pink, pink, puce, purple, brown, and black enamels, and gilt title: figure group NOTES ----- type: history note value: unknown before donor, Mrs W.D. 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/42667 PEOPLE ------------------- Time Cupid SUBJECTS ------------------- crown sceptre hourglass arrows crown sceptre hourglass arrows TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain, slip-cast, lead-glazed, and painted in blue (a little), turquoise-green, green (a little), flesh pink, pink, puce, purple, brown, and black enamels, and gilt slip-casting TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1765 - 1780 creation date earliest: 1765 creation date latest: 1780 culture: 18th Century culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Derby Porcelain Factory maker: William Duesbury & Co. maker: Dyck, Anthony van maker: McArdell, James DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 33.0 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures title: Tempus, The Art of Time CITATIONS -------- Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures The Old Derby China Factory Tempus, The Art of Time Contributions towards the History of Early English Porcelain from Contemporary Sources Une terre cuite de Corbet: Le Temps coupant les ailes de l'Amour Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Ceramics, Catalogue of English Porcelain, Earthenware, Enamels and Glass collected by Charles Schreiber Esq., M.P., and the Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Schreiber, and presented to the Museum in 1884, Volume I, Porcelain A Masterpiece of Clockmaking The Neo-classical style and Derby Biscuit figures 1771-1800 Derby Porcelain 1750-1848 Derby Porcelain: The Golden Years, 1750-1770 Derby Porcelain Figures 1750-1848 Influence of the Baroque on English Porcelain Christie's Sale Catalogue British Ceramics The Autumn Country House Sale --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/C_38_1932.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 532 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/mid_C_38_1932.jpg height: 714 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/C_38_1932.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 532 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/preview_C_38_1932.jpg height: 357 pixels width: 250 pixels