Cupid and Psyche
Figure Group
c. 1770 (designed)
c. 1770 (designed)
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Figure group with stand, depicting Cupid and Psyche, biscuit porcelain, on porcelain pedestal enamelled in blue and enriched with gilding.
Object details
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| Parts | This object consists of 2 parts.
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| Title | Cupid and Psyche (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Biscuit porcelain, on porcelain pedestal enamelled in blue and enriched with gilding |
| Brief description | Figure group, 'Cupid and Psyche', biscuit porcelain, on a porcelain pedestal enamelled in blue and enriched with gilding, Sèvres porcelain factory, France, date uncertain |
| Physical description | Figure group with stand, depicting Cupid and Psyche, biscuit porcelain, on porcelain pedestal enamelled in blue and enriched with gilding. |
| Production | date uncertain; Copied from an original marble group in the Museo Capitolino, Rome, Roman work of the 2nd C AD, after an earlier lost Greek original, discovered in 1749; the group was in Paris from 1797 to 1816. See H. Stuart Jones, Catalogue of Ancient Sculpture in Municipal Collection of Rome -- Museo Capitolino, 1912, pl. 12, p. 185, no. 3. The antique original has no wings. |
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| Bibliographic reference | Chaffers, William. The Keramic Gallery: containing Several Hundred Illustrations of Rare Curious and Choise Examples of Pottery and Porcelain from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Present Century. Vols. 1 & 2. London: Chapman & Hall, 1872. See Vol 2, illustrated Fig. 298. |
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| Accession number | 7000&A-1860 |
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| Record created | June 7, 2004 |
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