IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76292 accession number: C.889-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 4 April 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: White earthenware, press-moulded, covered with slightly blue tinted glaze, and painted in blue, green, dark yellow, flesh, pink, puce, red, redish-brown, brown, and black enamels. Venus stands on a low circular mound on a square straight-sided base which has a chamfered inner edge, and flat underside with a central ventilation hole. She is barefooted and stands on her left foot with her right a little behind it and her right knee relaxed. Her head turned slightly to her right, and holds a brown and white dove on her right hand level with her chest. Her left arm hangs by her side, and with the hand she holds up her tunic to reveal her lower leg. Her brown hair is swept up on top of her head behind a small yellow frontlet with red and blue 'jewels', and two long tresses hang down over her shoulders. Her face is lightly tanned and she has red lips and black irises. She wears a white dress decorated with blue spots, and dark yellow and puce floral sprays, and has green borders round the right armhole, neckline, left sleeve, and lower edge. A pink sash encircles her waist and is tied at centre front. The mound is coloured green and brown and there is a reddish-brown line running round the side of the base. object type: lead-glazed earthenware painted in polychrome enamels title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Mr Roe, Cambridge, from whom purchased for £2 and a similar but less attractive figure which had cost £1, on 6 November 1911 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: J. W. L. Glaisher creditline: Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76292 PEOPLE ------------------- Venus SUBJECTS ------------------- love dove dove TECHNIQUES ---------- white earthenware, press-moulded, covered with slightly blue tinted lead-glaze, and painted in blue, green, dark yellow, flesh, pink, puce, reddish-brown, brown, and black enamels press-moulded CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: pearlware category: enamel painted figures DATING ------ creation date: 1800 - 1820 creation date earliest: 1800 creation date latest: 1820 culture: 19th Century, Early# culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Staffordshire factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 26.1 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge English Earthenware Figures 1740-1840 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_889_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_C_889_1928_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_889_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_C_889_1928_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_889_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_C_889_1928_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_889_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_C_889_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels