Seated Boy representing Spring: C.3096A-1928

Titles

Seated Boy representing Spring

Maker(s)

Factory: Vauxhall Porcelain Factory (Probably)
Production: Longton Hall Porcelain Manufactory (Former attribution)

Entities

• Figure

Categories

• Porcelain
• Soft-paste porcelain

Description

Soft-paste porcelain, slip-cast, lead-glazed, and painted in blue, green, pink, brown enamels, and gilt. The underside is unglazed and has a circular hole off centre. The approximately oval base has a rocaille 'frill' round the edge, picked out in gold, and three leaves and a flower on the top. The boy sits on a brown basket filled with pink flowers. His left foot is on the ground and his other foot raised slightly. He leans over towards his left, holding a garland of pink flowers in both hands. He is bareheaded and barefooted, and wears a pink jacket with gold buttons, and blue bows on the shoulders, and green breeches with pink flowers around the knees. In a set of four figures representing the Seasons.

Notes

History note: Vernon Roberts Collection, sold Puttick and Simpson, 23 May 1924, lot 164; Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, Trinity College, Cambridge

Legal notes

Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest

Place(s) associated

• Vauxhall ⪼ Surrey ⪼ England
• Longton Hall ⪼ Staffordshire ⪼ England

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr

Dating

18th Century, Mid
George II
Circa 1755 CE - 1760 CE

Note

This figure and its three companions representing the Seasons was attributed to Longton Hall, but it has recently been suggested that it was made at the Vauxhall factory which operated between 1751 and 1764

School or Style

Rococo