Factory: Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory
Soft-paste porcelain candlestick, one of a pair with C.34A-1932.In the form of a cherub holding two candle branches and a basket of flowers, seated on a high base with three scroll feet.
Soft-paste porcelain, moulded, lead-glazed, painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, flesh-pink, pale purple, pale brown and black enamels and gilded. The glaze is slightly green where it lies thickly, and has crazed. The candlestick is in the form of a winged Cupid supporting two scrolled branches terminating in candle nozzles and drip-pans, attached to the arms by means of a screw, rivet and nut. He sits on a high base with three elaborately scrolled feet, and a flat back. His flesh is tinted in pink, and he has short pale brown hair, and wing feathers touched with blue and pale purple. He is nude except for a polychrome floral garland passing across his body from his left shoulder to his right hip, and a band and bow on his right arm, from which is suspended a mainly gold drape which covers the lower part of his body at the front, and ends by his left calf. He has a quiver by his left side. The candle branches, their nozzles, and drip-pans are outlined in gold, as are the scrolls on the base. Its top is decorated with a large purple, red, and green butterfly. On the back the edges are outlined in green and gold.
History note: Unknown before donor, Mrs W.D. (Frances Louisa) Dickson, Bournemouth
Given by Mrs W.D. Dickson
Height: 30.5 cm
Width: 33 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1932) by Dickson, W. D. (Frances Louisa), Mrs
Gold anchor period (1759-69)
18th Century, third quarter#
Circa
1758
CE
-
1784
CE
Decoration
presumed lead
Lead-glaze
Soft-paste porcelain
Moulding
: Soft-paste porcelain, moulded, lead-glazed, and painted in blue, green, yellow, flesh-pink, red, pale purple, pale brown and black enamels, and gilded
Lead-glazing
Accession number: C.34B-1932
Primary reference Number: 137248
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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