IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 140240 accession number: C.3181-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 8 May 2019 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. object type: hard-paste porcelain, painted in enamels, and gilt. Four little children symbolizing the Four Seasons, seated round a grotto with a tree on top title: figure group NOTES ----- type: history note value: 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. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/140240 PEOPLE ------------------- Andrade, Cyril TECHNIQUES ---------- 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 press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: hard-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1757 - 1759 creation date earliest: 1757 creation date latest: 1759 culture: Paul Hannong Period culture: 18th Century, third quarter CREATORS -------- maker: Frankenthal Porcelain Factory maker: Hannong, Paul Anton maker: Lanz, Johann Wilhelm DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 21 dimension: Height units: in value: 8 15/16 dimension: Width units: cm value: 23.2 dimension: Width units: cm value: 9⅛ CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Frankenthaler Porzellan Frankenthaler Porzellan, Band I: Die Plastik ---