IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76293 accession number: C.890-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 4 July 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: White earthenware, press-moulded, covered with slightly blue-tinted lead-glaze, and painted in blue, yellowish-green, yellow, pale lilac, flesh pink, red, reddish-brown, brown, and black enamels. Venus stands on a low circular mound supported by an almost square straight-sided base, which is closed underneath and has canted inner sides and a central ventilation hole. She is barefooted and stands on her left foot with her right foot a little behind it and her right knee relaxed. Her head is turned slightly to her right, and she holds a dove on her right hand at chest level. Her left arm is by her side, and she holds up her tunic to reveal the lower part of her left leg. Her brown hair is swept up onto the top of her head behind a small frontlet studded with red, blue and dark lilac 'jewels', and two tresses hang down over her shoulders. She wears a long bluish-white tunic is scattered with groups of four dots and red floral sprays. It has yellow edgings round the right armhole, neckline, right sleeve and hemline, and round the waist has a lilac sash tied at centre front. The mound is coloured yellowish-green and brown, and there is a reddish-brown line running round the four sides of the base. object type: lead-glazed earthenware painted in polychrome enamels title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: A. G. Smith, 193 Wardour Street, London, from whom bought for £2.10s.0d. on 15 February 1905 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/76293 PEOPLE ------------------- Venus SUBJECTS ------------------- love dove dove TECHNIQUES ---------- white earthenware, press-moulded, covered with slightly blue tinted lead-glaze, and painted in blue, yellowish-green, yellow, pale lilac, flesh pink, red, reddish-brown, brown, and black enamels press-moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: pearlware DATING ------ creation date: 1800 - 1820 creation date earliest: 1800 creation date latest: 1820 culture: 19th Century, Early# culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Staffordshire factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 25.8 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge English Earthenware Figures 1740-1840 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_890_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_C_890_1928_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_890_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_C_890_1928_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_890_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_C_890_1928_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_890_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_C_890_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels