IDENTIFIERS
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id:	131348
accession number:	EC.29-1941

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Wednesday 16 June 2021

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Porcelain figure group of Venus and Adonis with Cupid, moulded and glazed.
A toga clad Venus reclines on a rock with Adonis sitting at her side, leaning towards her. At her feet is cupid. A basket of flowers is on the other side.
title:	figure group

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Sotheby's, 8 May 1941, lot 43. Catalogue of Fine Porcelain and Important Furniture removed from Newton Park, Bristol and sold by order of the executors of the Rt Hon. Algernon William Stephen fifth Earl Temple


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
creditline: Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/131348

PEOPLE
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Venus
Adonis
Cupid




TECHNIQUES
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porcelain, moulded and glazed
moulding
TECHNIQUES
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glazing (coating)

CATEGORIES
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category: porcelain

DATING
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creation date:	1770 - 1770
creation date earliest:	1770
creation date latest:	1770
culture:	18th Century, second half#
culture:	George III

CREATORS
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maker: Bristol Porcelain Manufactory

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: in
value: 10 1/4

dimension: Width
units: in
value: 11



EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	Bristol Porcelain Bicentenary Exhibition 1170-1790
CITATIONS
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English Porcelain Figures of the Eighteenth Century
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