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Venus and Adonis (?)
Glazed hard-paste porcelain
Hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded and glazed on visible areas; the unglazed underside has a cross-shaped support, and in each quarter, a hollowed out depression, two roughly rectangular under the large figures at the front, and two smaller oval under the smaller ones at the back.The circular base has a rocky top and is decorated round the sides with rectangular meander wtih square four-petalled flowers in the spaces. Venus stands in front of a tree stump on the left, her left arm raised to hold up a long garland of flower. Adonis wearing a lion ? skin wrapped around him leans on a taller tree stump on the right with a hound at his feet.. Behind them is Cupid, who has laid his bow on the ground in front of thim, and holds up a stone, and a recumbent dog who watches him.
History note: Puttick & Simpson, London, 8 October 1920, part of lot 124; purchased with one other item for £3 guineas i.e. about £1.11.6d for this part, by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 17.8 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Late
Circa
1775
-
1800
Visible Area
composed of
glaze
( clear)
Base
Diameter 11.8 cm
Press-moulding : Hard-paste porelain, press-moulded in parts, assembled, and glazed
Inscription present: small rectangular paper label, now discoloured to buff
Inscription present: rectangular with cut top corners and a narrow blue line border
Accession number: C.3216-1928
Primary reference Number: 74513
Old object number: 3806
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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