Current Location: In storage
Titles
Standing Girl with Flowers, possibly representing Spring
Maker(s)
Factory:
Derby Porcelain Factory
Entities
Categories
Description
Soft-paste porcelain figure of a standing girl with flowers, slip-cast and painted overglaze in polychrome enamels and gilt.
Soft-paste porcelain, slip-cast and painted overglaze in blue, turquoise, green, yellow, flesh, puce, red, purple, and a black enamels, and gilt. The underside is partially glazed and has a central small circular ventilation hole. The circular low mound base has scrolls in relief round the front, and at the back has a low tree stump with a short forked branch bearing applied white flowers and leaves on each side. The girl stands in front of it with her left foot advanced a little. She holds up the remains of a floral spray in her left hand, and with her right, holds up her apron which full of blue flowers and leaves. She has black hair and wears a yellow broad-brimmed hat with a purple underside to the brim, a turquoise bodice, with a red stomacher, a yellow skirt, a petticoat scattered with yellow and puce circular motifs, and black shoes with a red pom-pom on each. On the ground on each side of her there is a group of leaves and white flowers with yellow centres. The scrolls are picked out in gold.\par
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Notes
History note: Unknown before testator
Legal notes
Bequeathed by E. Cecil Byas
Measurements and weight
Height: 12 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1938)
by
Byas, Cecil E.
Dating
18th Century, second half
George III
Production date:
circa
AD 1770
School or Style
Rococo
People, subjects and objects depicted
Components of the work
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( blue, turquoise, green, yellow, flesh, puce, red, purple, and a black)
lead-glaze
gold
Materials used in production
Soft-paste porcelain
Techniques used in production
Slip-casting
: Soft-paste porcelain, slip-cast and painted overglaze in blue, turquoise, green, yellow, flesh, puce, red, purple, and a black enamels, and gilt
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: EC.19-1938
Primary reference Number: 42612
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Tuesday 22 October 2024
Last processed: Thursday 14 August 2025
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
