IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 133878 accession number: C.3035A-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Saturday 27 November 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain with thick glassy lead-glaze. Summer is represented as a woman holding a sheaf of corn, standing on a shallow circular base decorated with applied leaves and flower heads. She wears a cloth over her head, a bodice with three-quarter-length sleeves, and an apron over a long skirt. title: figure LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: J. W. L. Glaisher creditline: Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/133878 PEOPLE ------------------- Summer SUBJECTS ------------------- corn corn TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain, moulded, and covered with thick bubbly lead-glaze press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1750 - 1753 creation date earliest: 1750 creation date latest: 1753 culture: 18th Century, Mid# culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: Longton Hall Porcelain Manufactory maker: William Littler & Co. DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 19.2 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Longton Hall Porcelain Porcelain Figures of the 'Snowman' Technique William Littler at Longton Hall ---