IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 74473 accession number: C.3194-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded, and painted overglaze in greyish-blue, yellowish-green, yellow, flesh-pink, pink, mauve, purple, red and brown enamels, and gilt. The glazed underside is closed and recessed with two small circular ventilation holes and five blunted conical supports. The base is of rounded triangular shape, and has a tree stump at the back. Flora stands in front of it on her left leg with her right advanced with knee bent. She holds a vertical flowering branch in both hands. She has long brown hair tied at the back with a pink ribbon, pink cheeks, and red lips. Her white off-the-shoulder robe is decorated with scattered gold sprays, and is held up over her left shoulder by a purple strap. A blue and yellow drape is wrapped around her waist and right arm, and hangs down at the back. A brown-haired and nude putto, lies on the ground in front of her with his right arm raised under the drape. The top of the base is touched with yellowish green and has three flowers and leaves applied at intervals. object type: Hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels and gilt. title: figure group NOTES ----- type: history note value: Foster's Auction Room, 54 Pall Mall, London, 14 June 1923, lot 109 bought for £1.2s. 0d. 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/74473 PEOPLE ------------------- Venus Cupid TECHNIQUES ---------- hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded, glazed, painted in greyish-blue, yellowish-green, yellow, flesh-pink, pink, mauve, purple, red and brown enamels, and gilt moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: hard-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1765 - 1765 creation date earliest: 1765 creation date latest: 1765 culture: 18th Century, third quarter# CREATORS -------- maker: Ansbach-Bruckberg Porcelain Manufactory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 24.5 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Figürliches Porzellan Weisses Gold aus Fürstenberg, Kulturgeschichte im Spiegel des Porzellans 1747-1830 Elfenbein --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_3194_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_3194_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_3194_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_3194_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_3194_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_3194_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_3194_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_3194_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_3194_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_3194_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_3194_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_3194_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_3194_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_3194_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_3194_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_3194_1928_284_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels