IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 133242 accession number: C.97-1950 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 3 October 2016 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain figure of Cupid, slip-cast, painted overglaze in turquoise, green flesh pink, red, purple, reddish-brown, brown, pale grey, and black enamels, and gilt. The underside is unglazed and has a large circular ventral ventilation hole surrounded by three patchmarks. The square base has cut corners, and straight sides decorated with a gold band, and at the back has a green and reddish brown tree stump. The Cupid tands on his right leg with his left extended behind, and turns his head to his left. Has has brown hair, eyebrows, and eyesHe wears a black tricorn hat, a turquoise and purple patterned drape, white socks and black shoes. In both hands he holds a rectangular reddish-brown box with a handle on its right side, probably a musical box, and carries on his back by means of two black straps, a pale grey magic lantern. object type: Soft-paste porcelain figure of Cupid carrying a magic lantern and musical box, painted in enamels, and gilt title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Unknown 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 collection: Mrs W.D. Dickson creditline: Given by Mrs W.D. Dickson STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/133242 PEOPLE ------------------- Cupid SUBJECTS ------------------- magic lantern magic lantern TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain, slip-cast, painted overglaze in turquoise, green flesh pink, red, purple, reddish-brown, brown, pale grey, and black enamels, and gilt. The underside is unglazed and has a large circular ventral ventilation hole surrounded by three patchmarks. 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, Late culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Derby Porcelain Factory maker: William Duesbury & Co. DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 12.3 dimension: Width units: cm value: 5.2 CITATIONS -------- Derby Porcelain Figures 1750-1848 The Old Derby China Factory ---