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Bust
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Bust
- Place of origin:
Lane End (made)
- Date:
1795-1809 (made)
- Artist/Maker:
Chetham & Woolley (manufacturer)
- Materials and Techniques:
Felspathic stoneware with a smear glaze and painted with pink enamel
- Credit Line:
Given by Lady Charlotte Schreiber
- Museum number:
414:1218-1885
- Gallery location:
Ceramics, Room 139, The Curtain Foundation Gallery, case D1, shelf 2
Physical description
Bust of Cupid in white 'pearl body' felspathic stoneware with a smear glaze and painted with pink enamel. The head is turned to the right. On a square pedestal, and on each side are oval panels outlined in pink. The front panel is blank, and the others have reliefs of Cupid with two doves billing, a Muse crowning the bust of a poet, and a woman pouring out a libation. Blue lines are round the top and bottom of the plinth.
Place of Origin
Lane End (made)
Date
1795-1809 (made)
Artist/maker
Chetham & Woolley (manufacturer)
Materials and Techniques
Felspathic stoneware with a smear glaze and painted with pink enamel
Dimensions
Height: 26 cm
Descriptive line
Bust of Cupid in white felspathic stoneware with a smear glaze and painted with pink enamel, on a square pedestal, Chetham & Woolley, Lane End, ca. 1795-1809.
Bibliographic References (Citation, Note/Abstract, NAL no)
See Object Information file in Ceramics and Glass offices.
Mallet, J.V.G.. Some Baroque sources of English ornamental porcelains A paper read at the weekend seminar Fire and Form – The Baroque and its influence on English Ceramics, c. 1660-1760, 26th-27th March 2011, published English Ceramics Circle, 2013, pp123-146. Illustrated fig. 12, 129p.
Materials
Stoneware
Techniques
Painted; Glazed
Subjects depicted
Doves; Poet; Woman
Categories
Ceramics; Stoneware
Collection
Ceramics Collection
