IDENTIFIERS
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id:	74513
accession number:	C.3216-1928

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, press-moulded and glazed on visible areas; the unglazed underside has a cross-shaped support, and in each quarter, a hollowed out depression, two roughly rectangular under the large figures at the front, and two smaller oval under the smaller ones at the back.The circular base has a rocky top and is decorated round the sides with rectangular meander wtih square four-petalled flowers in the spaces. Venus stands in front of a tree stump on the left, her left arm raised to hold up a long garland of flower. Adonis wearing a lion ? skin wrapped around him leans on a taller tree stump on the right with a hound at his feet.. Behind them is Cupid, who has laid his bow on the ground in front of thim, and holds up a stone, and a recumbent dog who watches him.
object type: Glazed hard-paste porcelain
title:	group

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Puttick & Simpson, London, 8 October 1920, part of lot 124; purchased with one other item for £3 guineas i.e. about £1.11.6d for this part, 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/74513

PEOPLE
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Venus
Adonis
Cupid

SUBJECTS
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dog
dog



TECHNIQUES
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hard-paste porelain, press-moulded in parts, assembled, and glazed
press-moulding

CATEGORIES
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category: hard-paste porcelain

DATING
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creation date:	1775 - 1800
creation date earliest:	1775
creation date latest:	1800
culture:	18th Century, Late


DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 17.8



CITATIONS
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Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
Some Small Sculptures by Giuseppe Piamontini
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