IDENTIFIERS
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id:	74450
accession number:	C.3175-1928

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, moulded, and painted overglaze in blue, turquoise blue, yellowish and greyish green, flesh pink, pale purple, pale and dark brown, and a little gilding. The closed and partly concave underside is glazed in the middle, and has a round ventilation hole at the back. The eight-sided base with a rocky top, and a tree stump at the back is painted in shades of greenish-and greyish green and brown. Venus, nude except for a pale purple circlet in her pale brown hair, stands on her left leg with right knee relaxed, looking down towards Cupid whom she holds by his left hand as he flies towards her from the viewer's left. She holds his purple quiver in her right hand and has its turquoise strap over her arm. Another putto sits on a pale purple drape on the ground to the right. A gold line runs round the edge of the base.
object type: hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels and gilt
title:	figure group

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Geneen, 258 Christchurch Road, Bournemouth from whom purchased for £2.2.0. on 16 August, 1917 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, 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/74450

PEOPLE
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Venus
Cupid
putto

SUBJECTS
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quiver
quiver



TECHNIQUES
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hard-paste porcelain, moulded, and painted overglaze in blue, turquoise blue, yellowish and greyish green, flesh pink, pale purple, pale and dark brown enamels, and a little gilding. The closed and partly concave underside is glazed in the middle, and has a round ventilation hole at the back.
press-moulding

CATEGORIES
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category: hard-paste porcelain

DATING
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creation date:	1830 - 1830
creation date earliest:	1830
creation date latest:	1830
culture:	19th Century, second quarter#

CREATORS
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maker: Meissen Porcelain Factory

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 21.7

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 10.7



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