IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 82692 accession number: C.99-1950 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 3 October 2016 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. object type: Soft-paste porcelain figure of Cupid dressed as a Lady's Maid, and holding a powder puff and box, painted in enamels title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Uncertain before donor, Mrs W.D. (Frances Louisa) Dickson, Bournemouth LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by Mrs W.D. Dickson STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/82692 PEOPLE ------------------- Cupid lady's maid TECHNIQUES ---------- 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. slip-casting TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1775 - 1780 creation date earliest: 1775 creation date latest: 1780 culture: 18th Century culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Derby Porcelain Factory maker: William Duesbury & Co. DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 5.3 dimension: Height units: cm value: 10.8 dimension: Width units: cm value: 5.5 CITATIONS -------- Derby Porcelain Figures 1750-1848 The Old Derby China Factory Musée Cognacq-Jay, II, Porcelaines The Dr. Peter Bradshaw Collection of English Porcelain Figures ---