IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76307 accession number: C.898-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Cream earthenware, press-moulded, covered with blue-tinted lead-glaze, and painted in greyish-blue, turquoise, green, yellow, flesh pink, brownish-red, brown, and black enamels. The group is supported on a low square base decorated round the top of the side edges with a black line, and inscribed 'Venus' across the front. It is concave underneath and has a central ventilation hole. Venus stands on a green and brown rocky mound with a tall brown tree trunk at the back. She rests her left hand on the tail of a dolphin with a stream of water issuing from its mouth. In her right hand she holds brownish-red object, perhaps a fish. Cupid, nude and winged, stands on her right, resting his left hand on her drapery and holding a small bow or arrow in his right hand. Venus has brown hair with a black band at the front. She is barefooted, and the upper part of her body is naked. The lower part is covered by a patterned drape with a yellow lining which is held up by a black strap across the front of her body, which raises the drape to reveal her left leg. The dolphin is turquoise with a brownish-red tail fin. and black eyes. object type: Earthenware figure of Venus accompanied by Cupid and a dolphin, covered with blue-tinted lead-glaze and painted in polychrome enamels title: figure group NOTES ----- type: history note value: A.G. Smith,193 Wardour Street, London, from whom purchased for £1.15s.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/76307 PEOPLE ------------------- Venus Anadyomene Cupid SUBJECTS ------------------- dolphin dolphin TECHNIQUES ---------- press-moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: pearlware category: enamel painted figures DATING ------ creation date: 1790 - 1810 creation date earliest: 1790 creation date latest: 1810 culture: 18th Century, Late-19th Century, Early culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Staffordshire Pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 22 dimension: Width units: cm value: 10.5 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_898_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_898_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_898_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_898_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_898_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_898_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_898_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_898_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_898_1928_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_C_898_1928_283_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_898_1928_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_C_898_1928_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_898_1928_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_C_898_1928_284_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_898_1928_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_C_898_1928_284_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels