Cupid as a Nurse Maid
Factory:
Derby Porcelain Factory
Proprietor:
William Duesbury & Co.
Soft-paste porcelain figure of a Cupid holding a baby in a basket, painted in enamels, and gilt
Soft-paste porcelain, slip cast, lead-glazed, and painted in turquoise-blue, green, pale yellow, flesh-pink, red, pale brown, and black enamels, and gilt. The underside is unglazed and had a large oval ventilation hold in the middle, and three patch marks. The circular low mound base is decorated round the edge with scrolls and rocaille frilling, and has a low tree stump at the back. The Cupid stands on his left leg with his right behind him next to the stump. He has brown eyes and eyebrows, pink cheeks and red lips, and is nude apart from a white headscarf, white socks and black shoes. He holds a small ‘Moses Basket’ containing a baby, covered by a pale yellow blanket, and a drape which passes behind the basket and is held up in his right hand over the viewer’s left end of the basket. The base is painted in pale green and turquoise, and the scrolls are picked out in gold
History note: Given by Mrs W.D. Dickson in 1917 to Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 10.6 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, third quarter#
George III
Production date:
circa
AD 1770
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( pale yellow, pink, flesh-pink, red, brown, and black)
gold
Base
Width 5.3 cm
presumed lead
Lead-glaze
Soft-paste porcelain
Slip-casting
: Soft-paste porcelain, slip-cast, lead-glazed, and painted overglaze in turquoise, pale green, pale yellow, flesh-pink, red, pale brown, and black enamels, and gilt
Lead-glazing
Accession number: C.3075-1928
Primary reference Number: 43389
Old object number: 4502
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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