IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76303 accession number: C.894-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 23 June 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Earthenware, moulded, assembled covered with with slightly blue tinted lead-glaze and painted in turquoise, yellowish green, yellow, flesh-pink, dark pink, pale purple, shades of brown and grey enamels. The group is supported on a square base marbled in grey and brown. Time sits on a rock with a skull at the front, an hour-glass at the side, and a sickle beside his feet. He is about to clip one of the wings of Cupid who rests across his knees looking extremely apprehensive. Time has a yellow and pale purple drape around his hips, and Cupid has a turquoise drape. Time has grey wings and Cupid dark pink ones. Their flesh, features and hair are painted naturalistically. object type: Earthenware with slightly blue tinted lead-glaze, painted in enamels title: figure group NOTES ----- type: history note value: Captain Reynolds Collection, sold en bloc to Gill & Reigate; Mr Stoner from whom bought for £10 in 1910 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/76303 PEOPLE ------------------- Reynolds, Captain Time Cupid SUBJECTS ------------------- shears hourglass scythe skull and crossbones shears hourglass scythe skull and crossbones TECHNIQUES ---------- cream earthenware, moulded in parts, assembled, covered with slightly blue-tinted lead-glaze, and painted in turquoise, yellowish green, yellow, flesh-pink, dark pink, pale purple, shades of brown and grey enamels moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- painting TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: pearlware category: enamel painted figures DATING ------ creation date: 1790 - 1800 creation date earliest: 1790 creation date latest: 1800 culture: 18th Century, Late culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Lakin & Poole maker: Wood, Ralph, II DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 31.1 dimension: Width units: cm value: 14.8 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures English Earthenware Figures 1740-1840 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_894_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_894_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_894_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_894_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_894_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_894_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_894_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_894_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels