IDENTIFIERS
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id:	76294
accession number:	C.891-1928

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 4 April 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: 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.
object type: lead-glazed earthenware painted in polychrome enamels
title:	figure

NOTES
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type: history note
value: 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


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	J. W. L. Glaisher
creditline: Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76294

PEOPLE
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Venus

SUBJECTS
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love
dove
dove



TECHNIQUES
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press-moulding

CATEGORIES
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category: lead-glazed earthenware
category: enamel painted figures

DATING
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creation date:	1800 - 1820
creation date earliest:	1800
creation date latest:	1820
culture:	19th Century, Early#
culture:	George III

CREATORS
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maker: Unidentified Staffordshire factory

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 25.9



CITATIONS
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Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
English Earthenware Figures 1740-1840
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