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Venus with Cupid and a Dolphin (Venus Anadyomene)
Production: Wood, Ralph, II (Probably)
Cream earthenware group of Venus, Cupid and a Dolphin on a high pedestal, decorated with green, yellow, and two shades of brown lead-glazes
Cream earthenware, press-moulded, and decorated with green-tinted clear, green, yellow, manganese-brown, and greyish-brown lead-glazes. The undersides of the base and figures are open and unglazed, The figure and its base are supported on a high greyish-brown square pedestal, decorated on each side with a urn in relief, and having a projecting border of gadrooning round its lower edge, and of circular formal flower heads round its upper edge. Venus stands on a rocky base with Cupid on her right, and an inverted dolphin spewing water from its mouth on her left. Her head is turned slightly to her left and she rests her left hand on the dolphin's tail. In her right hand she holds a small oblong object. She has a yellow coronet over her brown hair, and wears a green and brown drape around her lower body held up by a strap over her right shoulder and descending to the ground at the back. The base and the dolphin are coloured green and manganese-brown, and the glaze on the flesh of Venus and Cupid is tinted very pale green.
History note: Robert Henry Soden Smith FSA (1822-90) before 1889; unidentified private collector; Mr George Stoner, from whom purchased for £10 on 26 February 1908 for £10 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge.
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 27.5 cm
Width: 10.6 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Late
George III
Circa
1783
-
1795
Probably made in the factory of Ralph Wood II at Burslem. An order dated 16 November 1783 from Josiah and Thomas Wedgwood includes 6 figures of Venus and 6 of Neptune, priced at 15d. each making a total of 7s. 6d., which seem likely to have been this model and its companion. (Wedgwood Archives MSS 11496-12)
Decoration
composed of
lead-glaze
( green, yellow, manganese-purple, and brown)
Base
Depth 8.8 cm
Width 8.8 cm
cream Earthenware
Press-moulding : Cream earthenware, press-moulded in parts, assembled, and decorated with translucent green-tinted, green, manganese-brown and greyish-brown lead-glazes
Inscription present: rectangular white stick-on label with a blue motif in the top corners, and part of one in lower left corner
Accession number: C.870-1928
Primary reference Number: 76254
Old object number: 2841
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Venus with Cupid and a Dolphin (Venus Anadyomene)" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/76254 Accessed: 2024-12-22 14:43:11
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