Cupid seated with a Dog: EC.20A-1938

Titles

Cupid seated with a Dog

Maker(s)

Factory: Derby Porcelain Factory
William Duesbury & Co.

Entities

• Figure

Categories

• Soft-paste porcelain

Description

Soft-paste porcelain figure of a seated Cupid with a dog painted in enamels and gilt.

Soft-paste porcelain figure, slip-cast, with applied hand-modelled details, lead-glazed, and painted in a very ltitle blue, pale green, yellow, flesh, red, brown, and black enamels, and gilt. The underside is unglazed, and has a large circular ventilation hole, and three faint patch marks. The roughly circular base has a small tree at the back with two short branches bearing leaves, and, at the bottom, a branch or root forming a loop. The winged infant Cupid is seated with his left leg extended to the side. With his left hand he holds the right front paw of a whippet seated beside him, and places his right on its back. He has brown hair, and wears a scanty drapery decorated with a floral pattern in blue, red, and gold, and a gilded strap across his body from which is suspended a gold hunting horn. The whippet is white with red-brown markings, black claws, and a black collar. It looks up towards the Cupid as if to lick his face. The base is mainly green and red-brown, and has three yellow-centred flowers and leaves on the front.

Notes

History note: Unknown before testator

Legal notes

Cecil E. Byas Bequest

Place(s) associated

• Derby ⪼ Derbyshire ⪼ England

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1937) by Byas, Cecil E.

Dating

18th Century, third quarter#
George III
Circa 1770 - 1775

Note

This group and its companion were listed as ‘Pair of cupids, with Dog and Falcon’ in Haslem’s’ Price List of Derby figures, priced at 10s. enamelled and gilt, and 10s. 6d. biscuit, see Documentation

School or Style

Rococo