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Cupid and Psyche
Factory:
Wood, Enoch
(Possibly)
Factory:
Wood & Caldwell
(Possibly)
White earthenware with slightly blue-tinted lead-glaze
White earthenware, moulded, and coated with slightly blue-tinted lead-glaze (pearlware). Fgures of Cupid and Psyche embracing standing beside each other on a shallow square base
History note: Sotheby's, London, 9 March 1909, lot 16; bought by Mr S. Fenton for £3.5s.0d (+ 10% commission) for Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 46.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century, Early#
George III
Production date:
circa
AD 1800
This model was derived from the marble winged Cupid and Psyche, which had been found near S. Stefano Rotondo in Rome in 1666, and was taken to the Uffizi in Florence. The high status of this marble was demonstrated by its inclusion in Zoffany's painting of the 'Tribuna of the Uffizi' begun in 1772. The group was also produced in porcelain by the Ginori factory at Doccia. The popularity of reproductions of the group can be gauged by a reversed model, shown standing on top of a drop front secretaire in a Directoire period gouache by J.BN. Mallet, entitled 'La visite aux jeunes mariés', in the Musée Cognacq-Jay, Paris. The winged Cupid and Psyche became less admired after the finding of a marble representing the embracing couple without wings which was found in 1749 and placed in the Capitoline Museum in Rome.
Base Width 19.5 cm
blue-tinted transparent
Lead-glaze
white
Earthenware
Moulding
: White earthenware, moulded in parts, assembled, and coated with clear blue-tinted lead-glaze
Lead-glazing
Accession number: C.996-1928
Primary reference Number: 93840
Old object number: 3005
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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