Cupids Grinding, from an Elements Group

Description This rustic cupid group is one of a pair that represents the Elements: Air, Water, Fire and Earth. It is made of unglazed porcelain known as biscuit, which was a popular ware of the neoclassical age. This group was modeled possibly by Pierre Stephan or by Nicholas Gauron after a similar group made in Tournai.

Provenance Eleanore and Parton Althouse, Pennsylvania; Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, July 14, 1948, by purchase.

Credit Museum purchase with funds provided by the S. & A.P. Fund and Eleanore and Parton Althouse, 1948