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Venus holding a Dove
Production: Unidentified Staffordshire factory
Lead-glazed earthenware painted in polychrome enamels
Cream earthenware, press-moulded, lead-glazed, and painted in blue, green, yellow, flesh pink, red, beige, brown, and black enamels. Venus stands on a low circular mound supported by a larger almost square straight-sided base, which is closed underneath and has chamfered inner sides and a large oval ventilation hole in the centre. 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 beige-coloured 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 frontlet studded with green and blue 'jewels', and two tresses hang down over her shoulders. She wears a long yellow dress scattered with groups of three leaves and spots in black. It has green edgings round the right armhole, neckline, left sleeve and hemline, and round the waist has a red sash tied at centre front. The mound is yellowish green and there is a reddish-brown line running round the outside of the base.
History note: Mr Rudd, High Street, Southampton where bought by Mrs Dickson, who gave it on December 5, 1915 at Bournemouth to Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 25.9 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century, Early#
George III
Circa
1800
-
1820
Different versions of the same model are C.889-1928 and C.890-1928
Decoration
composed of
enamel
( blue, green, yellow, flesh pink, red, beige, brown, and black)
Surface
composed of
lead-glaze
( very slightly blue tinted)
Base
Depth 10.9 cm
Width 10.8 cm
cream Earthenware
Inscription present: rectangular white paper stick-on label with cut corners
Accession number: C.891-1928
Primary reference Number: 76294
Old object number: 4112
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Venus holding a Dove" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76294 Accessed: 2024-12-23 00:56:32
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