IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 137248 accession number: C.34B-1932 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 10 October 2017 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. object type: 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. title: two-light candlestick 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 creditline: Given by Mrs W.D. Dickson STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/137248 PEOPLE ------------------- Cupid SUBJECTS ------------------- quiver quiver TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain, moulded, lead-glazed, and painted in blue, green, yellow, flesh-pink, red, pale purple, pale brown and black enamels, and gilded moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1758 - 1784 creation date earliest: 1758 creation date latest: 1784 culture: Gold anchor period (1759-69) culture: 18th Century, third quarter# CREATORS -------- maker: Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 30.5 dimension: Width units: cm value: 33 CITATIONS -------- British and Continental Ceramics, 4th June 1990 Fine European Ceramics & Glass, 15th April 1997 The gold anchor Chelsea figures in the Museum of London ---