IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 41578 accession number: C.3036A-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded, and lead-glazed on the visible surfaces. The circular base is unglazed underneath and has a central ventilation hole. The woman is seated on a low rock with an oval aperture in the back to take an attachment. Her feet are crossed and she rests her left elbow on a basket of flowers standing on the rock to the viewer's right. She wears a broad-brimmed hat, a bodice and skirt, and an apron partly filled with flowers. Her shoes each have a pompom on the top. On the viewer's right of her feet, there is another basket of flowers, and to the left further back, a straw beehive. object type: Soft-paste porcelain figure of a Woman representing Spring. title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Purchased from A. Johnson & Sons, 85 Wigmore Street on 21 April 1922 for £18 the set by 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: Bequeathed by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/41578 PEOPLE ------------------- woman SUBJECTS ------------------- spring spring TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded, and lead-glazed on the visible surfaces press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: porcelain category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1755 - 1758 creation date earliest: 1755 creation date latest: 1758 culture: 18th Century, Mid# culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: Bow Porcelain Manufactory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 12.3 dimension: Width units: cm value: 9.7 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Bow Porcelain Figures circa 1748-1774 English Porcelain Figures of the Eighteenth Century Bow Porcelain Bow Porcelain: The Collection formed by Geoffrey Freeman Bow Porcelain and the London Theatre: vivitur ingenio A Treasury of Bow, A Survey of the Bow Factory from First Patent until Closure 1744-1774 ---