Current Location: Gallery 26 (Lower Marlay)
Titles
Venus holding a Flaming Heart
Maker(s)
Production:
Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory
Modeller:
Joseph Willems
(Probably)
Entities
Categories
Description
Figure. Soft-paste porcelain, slip cast, but heavy, and lead-glazed. The underside is unglazed and has a circular ventilation hole near the back. The figure stands on a square, straight-sided base in front of a large tree trunk dividing into two branches bearing applied flowers and leaves, one projecting on the left of the figure and the other, dividing again into two, projecting on the right. The goddess stands on her right leg with the left relaxed behind her. She leans back slightly and looks at a flaming heart held up in her right hand. Her left hand is by her side, and originally held something. She has long hair drawn into a bunch at the back and divided into tresses which fall down onto her shoulders. She wears an off-the-shoulder dress held on by a strap over her left shoulder, a drape around her left arm and hips which extends down to the ground behind her. There is an applied flower and three leaves to the viewer's left of her feet; three flowers and six leaves in the middle of the base, and one flower and four leaves at the back of the base on the right.
Notes
History note: Puttick and Simpson, London, 17 January 1919, lot 78.
Legal notes
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Measurements and weight
Height: 26.7 cm
Width: 14.4 cm
Place(s) associated
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1928)
by
Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Dating
Red anchor period (1752-1756)
18th Century, Mid
Production date:
circa
AD 1755
School or Style
Rococo
People, subjects and objects depicted
Materials used in production
presumed lead; except for base
Lead-glaze
Soft-paste porcelain
Techniques used in production
Slip-cast
: Figure. Soft-paste porcelain, slip-cast, but heavy, and lead-glazed
Lead-glazed
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.3061-1928
Primary reference Number: 80752
Old object number: 3907
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Tuesday 13 October 2020
Last processed: Friday 8 December 2023
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
