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On display
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Bust

1795-1809 (made)
Artist/Maker
Chetham & Woolley (manufacturer)
Place of origin
Lane End (made)

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.

Object details

Categories
Ceramics
Stoneware
Object type
Bust
Materials and techniques
Felspathic stoneware with a smear glaze and painted with pink enamel
Stoneware
Painted
Glazed
Brief description
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.
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.
Dimensions
  • Height: 26cm
Credit line
Given by Lady Charlotte Schreiber
Subjects depicted
Doves
Poet
Woman
Cupid
Muse
Associated object
C.34-1975
Bibliographic references
  • 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.
Other number
Sch. II 573 - Schreiber number
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
414:1218-1885

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Record createdMay 22, 2009
Record URL
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