IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 140246 accession number: C.3188-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Thursday 30 June 2016 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded,glazed, and painted in blue, shades of bluish-green, and greyish-green, yellow, flesh tones, red, purple, pale reddish-brown, reddish-brown, dark brown, grey, and black enamels, and gilt. The flat, unglazed base has a large L-shaped aperture which reveals the hollow underside of the rocky base and figure. The back, which was made separately and applied to the base, has a wide, oblong aperture, slightly curved on its lower side. The top of the high rocky base has a short tree stump on the viewer’s left and a vine branch on the right which curves around the top of the back. A female panther reclines on the front of the rock holding a bunch of grapes between its forepaws. Its head is turned upwards and to its left, and in its open mouth it has a grape. The nude Ariadne is seated on the rock, with her left knee drawn up and her left leg extended downwards. She leans forward and looks down towards the panther. Her left arm rests on the rock, cradling a basket of grapes, other fruit and foliage. She holds a bunch of grapes in her right hand which rests on top of the basket.Her greyish-black hair is drawn back into a loose knot at the back of her head, and waving tresses hang down her back. She wears a vine wreath on her head, and has a gold bracelet on her left wrist, and a tambourine hanging on a red and gold strap which passes over her left shoulder and under her right arm. object type: hard paste porcelain painted in polychrome enamels and gilt title: figure group NOTES ----- type: history note value: Christie’s, London 28 June 1917, lot 15; purchased for 13 ½ guineas by Mr Stoner who sold it on the same day for £16.10s.0d. to Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge. . LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/140246 PEOPLE ------------------- Ariadne SUBJECTS ------------------- panther panther TECHNIQUES ---------- hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded in parts, assembled, glazed, and painted overglaze in blue, shades of bluish-green, and greyish-green, yellow, flesh tones, red, purple, pale reddish-brown, reddish-brown, dark brown, grey, and black enamels, and gilt. The flat, unglazed base has a large L-shaped aperture which reveals the hollow underside of the rocky base and figure. The back, which was made separately and applied to the base, has a wide, oblong aperture, slightly curved on its lower side. press-moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: hard-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1760 - 1765 creation date earliest: 1760 creation date latest: 1765 culture: 18th Century, third quarter CREATORS -------- maker: Ludwigsburg Porcelain Factory maker: Beyer, Johann Christian Wilhelm DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 11 dimension: Height units: cm value: 16 dimension: Width units: cm value: 12.8 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Album der Erzeugnisse der ehmaligen Württembergischen Manufaktur Alt-Ludwigsburg ---