IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76487 accession number: C.980-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Sunday 25 June 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. object type: Lead-glazed earthenware painted in enamels. A standing figure of Venus with a dolphin. title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: 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 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/76487 PEOPLE ------------------- Venus SUBJECTS ------------------- dolphin dolphin TECHNIQUES ---------- 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 slip-casting TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: enamel painted figures DATING ------ creation date: 1815 - 1820 creation date earliest: 1815 creation date latest: 1820 culture: 19th Century, Early# culture: George III culture: George IV CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 61 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the earthenware collection of Staffordshire ware formed during the past forty years by Percy Fitzgerald Esq., FSA of 37 St George’s Road, S.W. Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures Staffordshire Pottery Figures Galleria degli Uffizi: Le Sculture, 2 vols Taste and the Antique. 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