Cupid dressed as a Lady's Maid
Factory:
Derby Porcelain Factory
Proprietor:
William Duesbury & Co.
Soft-paste porcelain figure of Cupid dressed as a Lady's Maid, and holding a powder puff and box, painted in enamels
Soft-paste porcelain figure of Cupid, slip-cast, lead-glazed, and painted overglaze in blue, turquoise, green, pink, a little red, pale-brown, and black enamels, and gilt. The underside is unglazed and has a large circular ventilation hole surrounded by three patch marks and brown accretions which extend inside the hole. The circular low mound base is decorated round the edge with rocaille frills and scrolls picked out in turquoise and gold respectively, and has at the back a pale green tree stump. The Cupid stands on his left leg, supported by the stump, and has his right foot advanced. He looks towards the viewer’s left, and holds a powder pink bowl in its left hand, and a puff in its right. It has pale brown hair, eyebrows and eyes, pink cheeks, red lips, and white wings. It wears a white cap, a flounced sleeves (no bodice), an apron with a blue edging at the bottom, and black shoes.
History note: Uncertain before donor, Mrs W.D. (Frances Louisa) Dickson, Bournemouth
Given by Mrs W.D. Dickson
Depth: 5.3 cm
Height: 10.8 cm
Width: 5.5 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Given (1950-09) by Dickson, W. D. (Frances Louisa), Mrs
18th century
George III
Circa
1775
CE
-
1780
CE
This model was one of 'Seventeen Figures of Cupid in Disguise' in numbered 262-278 inHaslem's 'Price List of Groups and Figures' made by the Derby Factory,but not differentiated. It was derived from a larger Meissen prototype, reproduced on smaller scale at Chelsea. See Documentation, Burollet, 1983.
Decoration composed of enamels ( pale turquoise, green, pink, a little red, greyish-brown, and black) gold
presumed lead
Lead-glaze
Soft-paste porcelain
Slip-casting
: Soft-paste porcelain, slip-cast, lead-glazed, and painted overglaze in shades of pale turquoise, green, pink, a little red, greyish-brown, and black enamels, and lightly gilt.
Lead-glazing
Accession number: C.99-1950
Primary reference Number: 82692
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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Accession Number: P.12087-R
Accession Number: P.12081-R
Accession Number: O.106-2008
Accession Number: GR.8.1931
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