Cupid seated with a Dog
Factory:
Derby Porcelain Factory
William Duesbury & Co.
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.
History note: Unknown before testator
Cecil E. Byas Bequest
Height: 12.6 cm
Width: 7.7 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1937) by Byas, Cecil E.
18th Century, third quarter#
George III
Circa
1770
-
1775
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
Decoration
composed of
enamel
( blue, pale green, yellow, flesh, red, brown, and black)
gold
Details
Main Parts
Lead-glaze
Soft-paste porcelain
Accession number: EC.20A-1938
Primary reference Number: 82351
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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