IDENTIFIERS
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id:	74010
accession number:	C.2746B-1928

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 25 February 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Pale buff earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed bluish-white, and painted in blue, green, yellow, red, and manganese-purple. The slender figure is supported on a circular mound base painted green with small red flecks here and there.  Venus stands in front of a peaock, which is painted in blue and yellow. She stands on her right foot with left a little behind it. She holds a yellow fruit in the hand of her extended left arm. Her right arm hangs down beside her. Her flesh is tinted and shaded in pale blue. She wears a yellow and red head band, and a yellow knee-length tunic with a red striped border at the top, and a red string below her breasts.
object type: tin-glazed earthenware figure of Venus accompanied by a peaock painted in blue, green, yellow, red, and manganese-purple
title:	figure

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Sotheby’s, 12 June 1906, part of lot 189, with three related figures, and two unrelated items; purchased for £1.10.0 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge


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
collection:	J. W. L. Glaisher
creditline: Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/74010





TECHNIQUES
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pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed bluish-white, and painted in blue, green, yellow, red, and manganese-purple
moulding
TECHNIQUES
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tin-glazing

CATEGORIES
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category: tin-glazed earthenware
category: Delftware

DATING
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creation date:	1780 - 1880
creation date earliest:	1780
creation date latest:	1880
culture:	18th Century, Late-19th Century#

CREATORS
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maker: Unidentified Delft factory

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 16.3



CITATIONS
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Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
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