IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76254 accession number: C.870-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Cream earthenware, press-moulded, and decorated with green-tinted clear, green, yellow, manganese-brown, and greyish-brown lead-glazes. The undersides of the base and figures are open and unglazed, The figure and its base are supported on a high greyish-brown square pedestal, decorated on each side with a urn in relief, and having a projecting border of gadrooning round its lower edge, and of circular formal flower heads round its upper edge. Venus stands on a rocky base with Cupid on her right, and an inverted dolphin spewing water from its mouth on her left. Her head is turned slightly to her left and she rests her left hand on the dolphin's tail. In her right hand she holds a small oblong object. She has a yellow coronet over her brown hair, and wears a green and brown drape around her lower body held up by a strap over her right shoulder and descending to the ground at the back. The base and the dolphin are coloured green and manganese-brown, and the glaze on the flesh of Venus and Cupid is tinted very pale green. object type: cream earthenware group of Venus, Cupid and a Dolphin on a high pedestal, decorated with green, yellow, and two shades of brown lead-glazes title: figure group NOTES ----- type: history note value: Robert Henry Soden Smith FSA (1822-90) before 1889; unidentified private collector; Mr George Stoner, from whom purchased for £10 on 26 February 1908 for £10 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, 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/76254 PEOPLE ------------------- Smith, Robert Henry Soden (1822-90) Venus Anadyomene Cupid SUBJECTS ------------------- dolphin dolphin TECHNIQUES ---------- cream earthenware, press-moulded in parts, assembled, and decorated with translucent green-tinted, green, manganese-brown and greyish-brown lead-glazes press-moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: coloured glazed figures DATING ------ creation date: 1783 - 1795 creation date earliest: 1783 creation date latest: 1795 culture: 18th Century, Late culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Wood, Ralph, II DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 27.5 dimension: Width units: cm value: 10.6 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge The Wood Family of Burslem English Earthenware Figures 1740-1840 The Henry H. Weldon Collection, English Pottery 1650-1800 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_870_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_870_1928_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_870_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_870_1928_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_870_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_870_1928_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_870_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_870_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels