A Grotto with Four Children representing the Four Seasons
Factory:
Frankenthal Porcelain Factory
Director:
Hannong, Paul Anton
Modeller:
Lanz, Johann Wilhelm
Hard-paste porcelain, painted in enamels, and gilt. Four little children symbolizing the Four Seasons, seated round a grotto with a tree on top
Hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded, hand-modelled, and painted overglaze in turquoise-green, green, yellow, flesh-pink, puce, red, purple, reddish-brown, dark brown, and black enamels, and lightly gilt. The underside has eight supports radiating from the centre. The rounded square low mound base has a Rococo scrolled and frilled edge picked out in puce and gold, and rises up in the middle into a grotto with four brown rocky supports, and a slightly domed turquoise-green top on which is a double tree trunk whose roots extend over the top. The top of the base outside the grotto is turquoise-green. Four small nude children holding attributes of the Seasons are seated on rocks at the corners of the grotto: Spring, a boy with a basket of flowers on his knee; Summer, a girl holding an apple in her outstretched right hand and ? in her left, with two wheat-sheaves on the ground beside her; Autumn, a boy with dark brown hair holding a goblet in his left hand and a bunch of grapes in his right; Winter, a boy drawing a red-brown cloak over his head and warming his hands at a fire with yellow and red flames.
History note: Cyril Andrade, Duke Street, St James’s, London, from whom purchased on 10 September 1917 for £50 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, Trinity College, Cambridge.
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 21 cm
Height: 8 15/16 in
Width: 23.2 cm
Width: 9⅛ cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Paul Hannong Period
18th Century, third quarter
Circa
1757
CE
-
1759
CE
Decoration composed of enamel ( turquoise-green, green, yellow, flesh-pink, puce, red, purple, reddish-brown, dark brown, and black) gold
Press-moulding
: Hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded in parts and assembled, with hand-modelled details, glazed, and painted in turquoise-green, green, yellow, flesh-pink, puce, red, purple, reddish-brown, dark brown, and black enamels, and lightly gilt
Glazing
Accession number: C.3181-1928
Primary reference Number: 140240
Old object number: 4228
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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