IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 93987 accession number: C.3169-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 20 August 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Hard-paste biscuit porcelain, moulded. The figure stands on a square, straight-sided base, with a flange round the underside of the edge, and a large, roughly triangular ventilation hole which leads into the figure which is hollow. Ceres stands on her right leg with the left relaxed at the knee. Her right hand rests on her right hip and in her left she holds a small bunch of corn and a poppy head. She wears a long dress with a cloak, the right end of which is draped across in front of her body and falls down over her left arm. object type: hard-paste porcelain figure after the antique marble 'Mathei Ceres' title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Purchased by Col. and Mrs W.D. Dickson at a sale at Godden Chetwynds at Ferndean some 10 miles from Bournemouth on 17 November 1917; given by them to Dr Glaisher on Christmas Day, 1917. 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/93987 PEOPLE ------------------- Ceres SUBJECTS ------------------- standing standing TECHNIQUES ---------- hard-paste biscuit porcelain, moulded moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: porcelain category: hard-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1790 - 1800 creation date earliest: 1790 creation date latest: 1800 culture: Marcolini period (1774-1814) culture: 18th Century, Late CREATORS -------- maker: Meissen Porcelain Factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 27 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures Führer durch die öffentlichen Sammlungen klassicher Altertümer in Rom Taste and the Antique. The Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500-1900 ---