IDENTIFIERS
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id:	133241
accession number:	C.98-1950

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Wednesday 15 July 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Soft-paste porcelain figure of a Cupid, slip-cast and painted over lead-glaze in  turquoise, green, flesh pink, and a little red and pale brown enamels, and gilt. The underside is unglazed and has a large roughly circular ventilation hole surrounded by indeterminate marks, probably patch marks. The approximately oval low mound base is edged by turquoise rocaille frilling, and scrolls picked out in gold and and has a green tree stump at the back with six applied leaves on the viewer’s right. The Cupid steps forward on his left leg and has his right behind next to the stump which supports him. He has pale brown eyes and eybrows and red lips, and white wings, and wears a long curling wig, sleeves with ruffles (but no bodice), and an apron, all white, He holds in both hands an pale brown oboe or end flute with a gilded reed and lower end.
object type: Soft-paste porcelain figure of a bewigged Cupid playing an oboe orr end flute painted in enamels, and gilt
title:	figure

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Unknown before Mrs W.D. (Frances Louisa) Dickson., Bournemouth


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
collection:	Mrs W.D. Dickson
creditline: Given by Mrs W.D. Dickson

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/133241

PEOPLE
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Cupid

SUBJECTS
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end-flute
end-flute



TECHNIQUES
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soft-paste porcelain , slip-cast and painted over lead-glaze in  turquoise, green, flesh pink, and a little red and pale brown enamels, and gilt. The underside is unglazed and has a large roughly circular ventilation hole surrounded by indeterminate marks, probably patch marks.
slip casting
TECHNIQUES
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lead-glazing

CATEGORIES
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category: soft-paste porcelain

DATING
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creation date:	1775 - 1780
creation date earliest:	1775
creation date latest:	1780
culture:	18th Century, Late
culture:	George III

CREATORS
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maker: Derby Porcelain Factory

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Depth
units: cm
value: 5.5

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 11

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 5



CITATIONS
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Derby Porcelain Figures 1750-1848
The Old Derby China Factory
Chelsea Porcelain
18th-Century English Porcelain
Musée Cognacq-Jay, II, Porcelaines
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