IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 43389 accession number: C.3075-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 August 2015 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain, slip cast, lead-glazed, and painted in turquoise-blue, green, pale yellow, flesh-pink, red, pale brown, and black enamels, and gilt. The underside is unglazed and had a large oval ventilation hold in the middle, and three patch marks. The circular low mound base is decorated round the edge with scrolls and rocaille frilling, and has a low tree stump at the back. The Cupid stands on his left leg with his right behind him next to the stump. He has brown eyes and eyebrows, pink cheeks and red lips, and is nude apart from a white headscarf, white socks and black shoes. He holds a small ‘Moses Basket’ containing a baby, covered by a pale yellow blanket, and a drape which passes behind the basket and is held up in his right hand over the viewer’s left end of the basket. The base is painted in pale green and turquoise, and the scrolls are picked out in gold object type: Soft-paste porcelain figure of a Cupid holding a baby in a basket, painted in enamels, and gilt title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Given by Mrs W.D. Dickson in 1917 to Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, 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/43389 PEOPLE ------------------- Cupid baby SUBJECTS ------------------- basket basket TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain, slip-cast, lead-glazed, and painted overglaze in turquoise, pale green, pale yellow, flesh-pink, red, pale brown, and black enamels, and gilt slip-casting TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: porcelain category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1770 - 1770 creation date earliest: 1770 creation date latest: 1770 culture: 18th Century, third quarter# culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Derby Porcelain Factory maker: William Duesbury & Co. DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 10.6 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge ---