IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76406 accession number: C.933-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 15 August 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Cream earthenware, covered with very slightly blue tinted lead-glaze, and painted in turquoise, yellow, flesh pink, greyish-pink, beige, a little red, reddish-brown, brown, and black enamels. The square base has shallow sides, incurved fluted sides and a small platform on top. The glazed underside has sloping sides and a closed centre with a large round ventilation hole. Cupid stands on a cylindrical greyish-pink pedestal with mouldings on its lower and upper edges and four swags of flowers round the sides. He has brown hair, rosy cheeks, and green and pink wings. He is nude apart from a green and yellow drape, which conceals his genitals and hangs down to the ground behind him.. A brown quiver of arrows is held on to his back by black straps across the front of his torso. His right hand is raised to the top of his head to hold a dove (now missing) and another pale beige dove is perching on his left hand which he holds close to his body. The base is decorated with three horizontal reddish-brown lines, and its fluted sides are striped in turquoise. object type: lead-glazed earthenware painted in enamels; standing Cupid holding a dove, on a cylindrical pedestal supported on a square base title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Sotheby's, 12 June, 1906, part of lot 256; purchased by S.G. Fenton on behalf of 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/76406 PEOPLE ------------------- Cupid SUBJECTS ------------------- dove quiver of arrows dove quiver of arrows TECHNIQUES ---------- cream earthenware, covered with very slightly blue tinted lead-glaze, and painted in turquoise, yellow, flesh pink, greyish-pink, beige, a little red, reddish-brown, brown, and black enamels. The glazed underside of the base has sloping sides and a closed centre with a large round ventilation hole. moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: enamel painted figures DATING ------ creation date: 1791 - 1810 creation date earliest: 1791 creation date latest: 1810 culture: late 18th or early 19th century culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Wilson, Robert (d. 1801) maker: David Wilson DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 17.3 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Neale Pottery and Porcelain --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_933_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_933_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_933_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_933_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_933_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_933_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_933_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_933_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_933_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_933_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_933_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_933_1928_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels