Current Location: Gallery 26 (Lower Marlay)
Titles
Cupid as a Nurse Maid
Maker(s)
Factory:
Derby Porcelain Factory
Proprietor:
William Duesbury & Co.
Entities
Categories
Description
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
Notes
History note: Given by Mrs W.D. Dickson in 1917 to Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Legal notes
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Measurements and weight
Height: 10.6 cm
Place(s) associated
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Derby
⪼ Derbyshire
⪼ England
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1928-12-07)
by
Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Dating
18th Century, third quarter#
George III
Production date:
circa
AD 1770
School or Style
Rococo
People, subjects and objects depicted
Components of the work
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( pale yellow, pink, flesh-pink, red, brown, and black)
gold
Base
Width 5.3 cm
Materials used in production
presumed lead
Lead-glaze
Soft-paste porcelain
Techniques used in production
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
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.3075-1928
Primary reference Number: 43389
Old object number: 4502
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Tuesday 25 August 2015
Last processed: Wednesday 13 December 2023
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
