IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 74513 accession number: C.3216-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. object type: Glazed hard-paste porcelain title: group NOTES ----- type: history note value: 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 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/74513 PEOPLE ------------------- Venus Adonis Cupid SUBJECTS ------------------- dog dog TECHNIQUES ---------- hard-paste porelain, press-moulded in parts, assembled, and glazed press-moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: hard-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1775 - 1800 creation date earliest: 1775 creation date latest: 1800 culture: 18th Century, Late DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 17.8 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Some Small Sculptures by Giuseppe Piamontini --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa4/C_3216_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa4/mid_C_3216_1928_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa4/C_3216_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa4/preview_C_3216_1928_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa4/C_3216_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa4/mid_C_3216_1928_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa4/C_3216_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa4/preview_C_3216_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa4/C_3216_1928_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa4/mid_C_3216_1928_283_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa4/C_3216_1928_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa4/preview_C_3216_1928_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa4/C_3216_1928_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa4/mid_C_3216_1928_284_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa4/C_3216_1928_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa4/preview_C_3216_1928_284_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels