IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 42219 accession number: C.85-1950 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, figure of Winter, press-moulded, with hand-modelled parts, painted underglaze in blue, and overglaze in pale blue, turquoise, green, yellow, flesh-pink, puce, orange-red, red, brown, and black enamels, and gilt. The square base has scrolled edges and four scroll feet with a pierced rocaille motif between the front two. Winter sits on a heap of logs, pierced at the back by a roughly square aperture to take an attachment. He leans forward over a vase-shaped brazier. His left leg is crossed over his right, and his hands are held together over the brazier. He wears a puce hooded coat with a yellow lining, gold buttons, and dark blue cuffs with gold buttons. His breeches are white with a pattern of yellow, green, puce, and gold circular motifs, and he has white stockings, and black shoes with red and gold ties. The top of the base is incongruously decorated with three groups of three flowers and leaves. The edges and feet of the base are picked out in turquoise and gold, and the rocaille motif in puce and turquoise. object type: Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, figure of Winter, press-moulded, with hand-modelled parts, painted underglaze in blue, and overglaze in polychrome enamels, and gilt. title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Colonel and Mrs W.D. Dickson LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by Mrs W.D. Dickson STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/42219 PEOPLE ------------------- man SUBJECTS ------------------- winter winter TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded, with hand-modelled parts, painted underglaze in blue, and overglaze in polychrome enamels, and gilt press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1760 - 1770 creation date earliest: 1760 creation date latest: 1770 culture: 18th Century, third quarter culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Bow Porcelain Manufactory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 16.0 dimension: Width units: cm value: 10.5 CITATIONS -------- Bow Porcelain Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Ceramics, Catalogue of English Porcelain, Earthenware, Enamels and Glass collected by Charles Schreiber Esq., M.P., and the Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Schreiber, and presented to the Museum in 1884, Volume I, Porcelain Bow Porcelain Figures circa 1748-1774 A Treasury of Bow, A Survey of the Bow Factory from First Patent until Closure 1744-1774 English Enamels and British and Irish Ceramics, 26th February 1986 A Celebration of the English Country House, 7 April 2004 ---