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Venus
Factory: Unknown
Lead-glazed earthenware painted in enamels. A standing figure of Venus with a dolphin.
Lead-glazed earthenware painted in greyish-green, green, tanned flesh pink, red, pale brown, dark brown, and black enamels. The underside of the base is closed and has a large ventilation hole under the support and a small one under the dolphin. The black base is circular with straight sides and has a brown tree stump at the back which supports Venus, who stands with the dolphin on the viewer's right of her, its head beside her left foot and its tail resting on the tree stump. Venus has brown hair and eyebrows. Her lips are red, and her nude body is coloured overall in a rather startling tanned flesh pink. She wears a grey-green fig leaf. The dolphin's scales are painted in two shades of green, and it has a red mouth and fins.
History note: Percy Fitzgerald Collection; sold Christie, Manson & Woods, 24 January, 19 1908, Catalogue of the collection of Staffordshire ware formed during the past forty years by Percy Fitzgerald Esq., FSA of 37 St George’s Road, S.W., part of lot 120; sold for £11 11s. to Mr S. Fenton, from whom bought on December 11, 1908 for £15 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 61 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century, Early#
George III
George IV
Circa
1815
CE
-
1820
CE
During the 18th century the 'Venus de'Medici' in the Uffizi, Florence,evoked almost universal admiration, despite having replacement arms by Ercole Ferrata, and was probably the best-known and most copied classical marble after the 'Apollo Belvedere'. This early 19th century copy demonstrates the startling results produced by all-over enamelled decoration on a copy of a statue generally envisaged white. Bernard Rackham (see Documentation) dated the figure to about 1820 on the basis of another inscribed 'THOMAS LEEK 1819' illustrated in Herbert Read's Staffordshire Pottery Figures.
Decoration composed of enamel ( greyish-green, green, tanned flesh pink, red, pale brown, dark brown, and black)
white
Earthenware
Lead-glaze
Slip-casting
: White earthenware, probably slip-cast, assembled, lead-glazed, and painted in greyish-green, green, tanned flesh pink, red, pale brown, dark brown, and black enamels. The underside of the base is closed and has a large ventilation hole under the support and a small one under the dolphin
Lead-glazing
Accession number: C.980-1928
Primary reference Number: 76487
Old object number: 3042
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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