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Bust of the Medici Venus
Factory: Turner
Off-white stoneware with slight sheen and traces of gilding, supported on a black basalt socle
Off-white stoneware with slight sheen and traces of gilding over much of the surface, supported on a black basalt socle, which is closed underneath and has a large circular ventilation hole in the middle. The name VENUS is impressed into the back and gilded. The rectangular socle is decorated on three sides and plain on the back. The lower edge is decorated in relief with Greek key pattern, with a row of beading above. The upper part of its sides are decorated with downward pointing leaves.The platform on which the bust rests has beading round the top edge, and below, upward pointing leaves, and a border of semi-circular motifs.
History note: Unknown before C.B. Marlay, St Katherine's Lodge, Regents Park, London
C.B. Marlay Bequest
Height: 47.8 cm
Height: 18 ¾ in
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1912) by Marlay, Charles Brinsley
18th Century, Late-19th Century, Early#
George III
Production date:
circa
AD 1800
In the 18th and 19th centuries the Medici Venus (Venus de'Medici) in the Uffizi in Florence was probably the best-known and most copied classical marble after the Apollo Belvedere.
Bust
composed of
stoneware
( off-white with slight sheen)
Width 10 ¾ in
Socle
composed of
black basalt
Depth 11.8 cm
Width 18.7 cm
Accession number: MAR.C.30-1912
Primary reference Number: 77362
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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