Venus: C.2746B-1928

Titles

Venus

Maker(s)

Production: Unidentified Delft factory (Probably)

Entities

• Figure

Categories

• Tin-glazed earthenware
• Delftware

Description

Tin-glazed earthenware figure of Venus accompanied by a peaock painted in blue, green, yellow, red, and manganese-purple

Pale buff earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed bluish-white, and painted in blue, green, yellow, red, and manganese-purple. The slender figure is supported on a circular mound base painted green with small red flecks here and there. Venus stands in front of a peaock, which is painted in blue and yellow. She stands on her right foot with left a little behind it. She holds a yellow fruit in the hand of her extended left arm. Her right arm hangs down beside her. Her flesh is tinted and shaded in pale blue. She wears a yellow and red head band, and a yellow knee-length tunic with a red striped border at the top, and a red string below her breasts.

Notes

History note: Sotheby’s, 12 June 1906, part of lot 189, with three related figures, and two unrelated items; purchased for £1.10.0 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge

Legal notes

Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr

Dating

18th Century, Late-19th Century
Circa 1780 CE - 1880 CE

Note

Although this figure and its companions bear the mark of Pieter Kocs who directed the Greek A Factory between 1701-22, they were probably made in the 19th century, or were made in the late 18th century and had the red mark applied to them overglaze in the 19th century.Rackham (1935) however, considered that they were Dutch and early 18th century.

School or Style

Neoclassical