IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 80752 accession number: C.3061-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 13 October 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Figure. Soft-paste porcelain, slip cast, but heavy, and lead-glazed. The underside is unglazed and has a circular ventilation hole near the back. The figure stands on a square, straight-sided base in front of a large tree trunk dividing into two branches bearing applied flowers and leaves, one projecting on the left of the figure and the other, dividing again into two, projecting on the right. The goddess stands on her right leg with the left relaxed behind her. She leans back slightly and looks at a flaming heart held up in her right hand. Her left hand is by her side, and originally held something. She has long hair drawn into a bunch at the back and divided into tresses which fall down onto her shoulders. She wears an off-the-shoulder dress held on by a strap over her left shoulder, a drape around her left arm and hips which extends down to the ground behind her. There is an applied flower and three leaves to the viewer's left of her feet; three flowers and six leaves in the middle of the base, and one flower and four leaves at the back of the base on the right. title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Puttick and Simpson, London, 17 January 1919, lot 78. 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/80752 PEOPLE ------------------- Venus SUBJECTS ------------------- flaming heart flaming heart TECHNIQUES ---------- Figure. Soft-paste porcelain, slip-cast, but heavy, and lead-glazed slip-cast TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazed CATEGORIES ------ category: porcelain category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1755 - 1755 creation date earliest: 1755 creation date latest: 1755 culture: Red anchor period (1752-1756) culture: 18th Century, Mid CREATORS -------- maker: Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory maker: Joseph Willems DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 26.7 dimension: Width units: cm value: 14.4 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Chelsea Porcelain, the Red Anchor Wares English Porcelain Figures of the Eighteenth Century Eighteenth Century English Porcelain Figures 1745-1795 18th-Century English Porcelain Chelsea China from Private Collections ---