IDENTIFIERS
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id:	41579
accession number:	C.3036B-1928

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 25 February 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded, and lead-glazed on the visible surfaces. The flat underside is unglazed and has a small almost central ventila-tion hole. The rounded oval mound base is covered by a heap of cut corn, and has a square aperture to take an attachment at the back. The girl is seated on the corn facing to the front but with her legs sloping to the viewer's left. She holds out a bunch of ears of corn in her right hand, and with her left, which is beside her left thigh, supports the top of a stook of corn. She wears a hat with wide flat brim, a short-sleeved blouse, and a dress with a low-neck, bodice pointed at centre front and back, and a full skirt, and shoes with bows.
object type: Soft-paste porcelain figure of Woman representing Summer.
title:	figure

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Purchased from A. Johnson & Sons, 85 Wigmore Street on 21 April 1922 for £18 the set.


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	J. W. L. Glaisher
creditline: Bequeathed by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/41579

PEOPLE
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woman

SUBJECTS
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summer
summer



TECHNIQUES
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soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded, and lead-glazed on the visible surfaces
press-moulding
TECHNIQUES
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lead-glazing

CATEGORIES
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category: porcelain
category: soft-paste porcelain

DATING
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creation date:	1755 - 1755
creation date earliest:	1755
creation date latest:	1755
culture:	mid-18th Century
culture:	George II

CREATORS
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maker: Bow Porcelain Manufactory

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 12.4

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 8.5



CITATIONS
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Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
Bow Porcelain Figures circa 1748-1774
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
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