IDENTIFIERS
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id:	74448
accession number:	C.3173-1928

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

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Hard-paste porcelain, moulded, glazed and painted in green, yellow, flesh pink, red, purple, pale and dark brown, and black enamels, and gilt. The flat underside is unglazed, and has a small round ventilation hold near the back. The circular, flat-topped base, has a border of gold Greek key ornment round the outer edge. Ganymede stands on his right leg with his left knee relaxed. He looks down towards the eagle which he touches with his left hand; his right, holding a bird, is raised to head level. He has a purple and gold circlet over his brown curly hair and has pale browneyebrows and eyes, and pale red lips. He is nude apart from a pale green drape around his hips, tied at the back, and falling down to the ground below the eagle's outstretched wings. The eagle is partly brown and partly white, and has a red eye, a yellow beak, and yellow feet with black claws.
object type: hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels and gilt
title:	figure

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Purchased by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher from Mr Greenwood in York on 10 September 1917 with C.3174-1928 for £25.


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/74448

PEOPLE
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Ganymede

SUBJECTS
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eagle
eagle



TECHNIQUES
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hard-paste porcelain, moulded, glazed, and painted in green, yellow, flesh pink, red, purple, pale and dark brown, and black enamels, and gilt
press-moulding
TECHNIQUES
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glazing (coating)

CATEGORIES
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category: hard-paste porcelain

DATING
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creation date:	1781 - 1810
creation date earliest:	1781
creation date latest:	1810
culture:	18th Century, Late-19th Century, Early#
culture:	Marcolini period (1774-1814)

CREATORS
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maker: Meissen Porcelain Factory
maker: Schönheit, Johann Carl

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 19.7



CITATIONS
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Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
Die Modellsammlung der Porzellanmanufaktur Doccia
Johann Joachim Friedrich Elsasser's Engravings of the "Academic" and Marcolini periods 1785-1792
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