IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 82351 accession number: EC.20A-1938 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. object type: Soft-paste porcelain figure of a seated Cupid with a dog painted in enamels and gilt. title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Unknown before testator LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Cecil E. Byas Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/82351 PEOPLE ------------------- Cupid SUBJECTS ------------------- dog tree dog tree CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1770 - 1775 creation date earliest: 1770 creation date latest: 1775 culture: 18th Century, third quarter culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Derby Porcelain Factory maker: William Duesbury & Co. DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 12.6 dimension: Width units: cm value: 7.7 CITATIONS -------- The Old Derby China Factory Derby Porcelain Figures 1750-1848 Derby Porcelain ---