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Image of Gallery in South Kensington
On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 139, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Cupid and Psyche

Figure Group
c. 1770 (designed)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Figure group with stand, depicting Cupid and Psyche, biscuit porcelain, on porcelain pedestal enamelled in blue and enriched with gilding.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Parts
This object consists of 2 parts.

  • Figure Group (Cupid and Psyche)
  • Figure Group Stand
TitleCupid 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.
Subjects depicted
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.
Collection
Accession number
7000&A-1860

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Record createdJune 7, 2004
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