IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 38484 accession number: C.3096B-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Thursday 11 August 2016 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain, slip-cast, lead-glazed, and painted in green, yellow, pink and brown enamels, and gilt. The unglazed underside has a large circular hole near the back. The figure is on a shallow truncated oval base with a scrolled edge picked out with gilding. The girl sits on a yellow sheaf of corn. She is barefooted and has her hands over her lap, holding a now missing object. On her lap there is a loose heap of ears of corn and several more ears are scattered on the base around her feet. She wears a green hat with corn stalks projecting from the crown onto the brim, which is pink underneath and turned up at the front. She wears a low-necked pink dress with bows on the shoulders and elbows, and a white apron. In a set of four figures representing the Seasons. title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Vernon Roberts Collection, sold Puttick and Simpson, 23rd May 1924, lot 164; Dr J.W.L. Glaisher 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/38484 PEOPLE ------------------- girl SUBJECTS ------------------- summer corn summer corn TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain, painted in green, yellow, pink and brown enamels, and gilt slip-casting TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: porcelain category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1753 - 1755 creation date earliest: 1753 creation date latest: 1755 culture: 18th Century, Mid# CREATORS -------- maker: Vauxhall Porcelain Factory maker: Longton Hall Porcelain Manufactory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 12.9 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Longton Hall Porcelain English Ceramics, The Frances and Emory Locke Collection Vauxhall porcelain: A Tentative Chronology Vauxhall porcelain figures ---