IDENTIFIERS
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id:	167916
accession number:	C.178-1918

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Thursday 14 April 2016

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded, and painted overglaze in blue, green, pale yellow, flesh pink, red, purple, brown, grey enamels. The closed underside is unglazed and  has a small circular central ventilation hole. The circular, high rocky mound base  has frilled scrolls around the edge, and on top, three applied flowers beween leaves, one blue, and the others red and white and purple and white respectively. The putto stands on his left leg with right knee relaxed. His head is turned to his right and he holds a lyre (upper part missing) in both hands. He wears a laurel wreath over his greyish-brown hair, and is nude apart from a long pale yellow drape with a polychrome floral pattern, and pale grey lining which is held on by a purple strap across his body.
object type: hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels, and gilt
title:	figure

NOTES
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type: history note
value: unknown before donor


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
creditline: Given by Ralph Griffin, MA, FSA

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/167916

PEOPLE
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putto

SUBJECTS
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lyre
lyre



TECHNIQUES
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press-moulding

CATEGORIES
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category: hard-paste porcelain

DATING
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CREATORS
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maker: Meissen Porcelain Factory

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 16.6

dimension: Height
units: in
value: 6½