IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 74450 accession number: C.3175-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Thursday 14 April 2016 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Hard-paste porcelain, moulded, and painted overglaze in blue, turquoise blue, yellowish and greyish green, flesh pink, pale purple, pale and dark brown, and a little gilding. The closed and partly concave underside is glazed in the middle, and has a round ventilation hole at the back. The eight-sided base with a rocky top, and a tree stump at the back is painted in shades of greenish-and greyish green and brown. Venus, nude except for a pale purple circlet in her pale brown hair, stands on her left leg with right knee relaxed, looking down towards Cupid whom she holds by his left hand as he flies towards her from the viewer's left. She holds his purple quiver in her right hand and has its turquoise strap over her arm. Another putto sits on a pale purple drape on the ground to the right. A gold line runs round the edge of the base. object type: hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels and gilt title: figure group NOTES ----- type: history note value: Geneen, 258 Christchurch Road, Bournemouth from whom purchased for £2.2.0. on 16 August, 1917 by 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/74450 PEOPLE ------------------- Venus Cupid putto SUBJECTS ------------------- quiver quiver TECHNIQUES ---------- hard-paste porcelain, moulded, and painted overglaze in blue, turquoise blue, yellowish and greyish green, flesh pink, pale purple, pale and dark brown enamels, and a little gilding. The closed and partly concave underside is glazed in the middle, and has a round ventilation hole at the back. press-moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: hard-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1830 - 1830 creation date earliest: 1830 creation date latest: 1830 culture: 19th Century, second quarter# CREATORS -------- maker: Meissen Porcelain Factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 21.7 dimension: Width units: cm value: 10.7 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_3175_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/mid_C_3175_1928_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_3175_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/preview_C_3175_1928_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_3175_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/mid_C_3175_1928_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_3175_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/preview_C_3175_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_3175_1928_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/mid_C_3175_1928_283_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_3175_1928_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/preview_C_3175_1928_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_3175_1928_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/mid_C_3175_1928_284_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_3175_1928_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/preview_C_3175_1928_284_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels