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Cupid
Production:
Wilson, Robert (d. 1801)
(Possibly)
Production:
David Wilson
(Possibly)
Lead-glazed earthenware painted in enamels; standing Cupid holding a dove, on a cylindrical pedestal supported on a square base
Cream earthenware, covered with very slightly blue tinted lead-glaze, and painted in turquoise, yellow, flesh pink, greyish-pink, beige, a little red, reddish-brown, brown, and black enamels. The square base has shallow sides, incurved fluted sides and a small platform on top. The glazed underside has sloping sides and a closed centre with a large round ventilation hole. Cupid stands on a cylindrical greyish-pink pedestal with mouldings on its lower and upper edges and four swags of flowers round the sides. He has brown hair, rosy cheeks, and green and pink wings. He is nude apart from a green and yellow drape, which conceals his genitals and hangs down to the ground behind him.. A brown quiver of arrows is held on to his back by black straps across the front of his torso. His right hand is raised to the top of his head to hold a dove (now missing) and another pale beige dove is perching on his left hand which he holds close to his body. The base is decorated with three horizontal reddish-brown lines, and its fluted sides are striped in turquoise.
History note: Sotheby's, 12 June, 1906, part of lot 256; purchased by S.G. Fenton on behalf of Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 17.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Late 18th or early 19th century
George III
Circa
1791
-
1810
This figure was attributed tentatively to the Wilson factory in Hanley by Rackham in his Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection, 1935. This factory had formerly been Neale & Co., and was run by Robert Wilson from 1791 until shortly before his death in 1801, when his son David took over.
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( turquoise, yellow, flesh pink, greyish-pink, beige, a little red, reddish-brown, brown, and black)
Surface
composed of
lead-glaze
( very slightly blue tinted)
Base
Depth 5.2 cm
Width 5.2 cm
cream Earthenware
Moulding : Cream earthenware, covered with very slightly blue tinted lead-glaze, and painted in turquoise, yellow, flesh pink, greyish-pink, beige, a little red, reddish-brown, brown, and black enamels. The glazed underside of the base has sloping sides and a closed centre with a large round ventilation hole.
Inscription present: Rectangular white paper stick on label with dark blue lines round the left, top and right edges, and plant motifs in top corners
Accession number: C.933-1928
Primary reference Number: 76406
Old object number: 2431
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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