Putto as Venus with a Dove
Factory:
Höchst Porcelain Manufactory
Modeller:
Melchior, Johann Peter
Hard-paste porcelain painted in pale greyish-blue, green, flesh-pink, pink, a little red, pale grey, and brown enamels and gilded. The glazed underside is divided front to back by a low wall. The flat area on the right has a round ventilation hole, and the left area is concave. The base is moulded to resemble clouds, and rises up into a swirling pedestal which supports the figure. It is painted in alternate areas of pale greyish-blue and pink which overlap and appear mauve. The slightly podgy child Venus semi-reclines on the cloud, leaning on her right hand and holding her left up in front of her. She has her pale grey hair swept up into a knot on top of her head and wears a gold frontlet decorated with two pink flowers, two small blue flowers, and two leaves. Her skin is delicately tinted flesh pink, and she has brown eyes, and pale red lips. She is nude and sits on a green drape. The dove perches on the lower cloud to the viewer's left.
History note: G.W. Kerin, London
Purchased with the Dr. F.R. Cowper Reed Fund
Height: 14.8 cm
Height: 5⅞ in
Method of acquisition: Bought (1956-04-26)
18th Century, third quarter
Circa
1770
CE
-
1775
CE
Johann Peter Melchior worked as a modeller at Höchst between 1767 and 1779 when he moved to Frankenthal.
Decoration
composed of
enamel
( pale greyish-blue, green, flesh-pink, pink, a little red, pale grey, and brown enamels)
gold
Base
Width 9.8 cm
Width 4 in
clear; except edge of base
Glaze
Hard-paste porcelain
Inscription present: deep circular impression
Accession number: C.5-1956
Primary reference Number: 140317
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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