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Gardener
Factory: Derby Porcelain Factory
Soft-paste porcelain figure of a gardener holding a flower in his right hand, standing beside a tree stump on a circular base, painted in enamels, and gilded
Soft-paste porcelain figure of a gardener, slip-cast, and painted overglaze in blue, green, yellow, pink, pale purple, red, flesh-tan, brown, and black enamels, and gilt. The figure stands on a circular base with vertical scrolled and pierced sides, and a tree stump on the viewer’s left side. On the top there is a group of five applied flowers and leaves, and a group of leaves.The gardener stands on his right leg, with his left bent at the knee behind him. His holds out a bunch of flowers in his left hand, and with his right, reaches behind his back to take more flowers from a basket resting on top of the tree stump. He has brown curly hair, sideburns, and eyebrows, a ruddy complexion and red lips. He wears a red jacket decorated with green spots and gold dotted circles, which has pink cuffs and lining, and gold front edges and buttons. His shirt is white, and round his neck is a yellow scarf with a pattern of dots and groups of three strokes. He has fall-front knee breeches are sage green with broad gold stripes, buttons, and bows at the knees, white stockings, and black shoes with black bows. The top of the base is dappled green over brown, the leaves green, and the flowers pink with yellow centres. The tree trunk is dapplied in brown and green, and the basket is pink with blue and pale purple flowers with yellow centres. The scrolls on the edge are gilded.
History note: Uncertain before donor, Mrs W.D. (Frances Louisa) Dickson
Given by Mrs W.D. Dickson
Height: 25.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1932-10) by Dickson, W. D. (Frances Louisa), Mrs
19th Century, Early#
George III
George IV
Circa
1810
-
1825
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( blue, green, yellow, pink, pale purple, red, flesh-tan, brown, and black)
gold
Base
Diameter 9.7 cm
presumed lead
Lead-glaze
Soft-paste porcelain
Slip-casting
: Soft-paste porcelain, slip-cast, lead-glazed, painted overglaze in in blue, green, yellow, pink, pale purple, red, flesh-tan, brown, and black enamels, and gilt
Lead-glazing
Inscription present: Script N with raised o
Inscription present: situated to right of the factory mark
Accession number: C.101-1932
Primary reference Number: 71135
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Gardener" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/71135 Accessed: 2024-04-26 14:59:32
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/71135
|title=Gardener
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-04-26 14:59:32|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/objects/object-71135
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Accession Number: 1564a
Accession Number: PD.187-2015
Accession Number: P.14856-R
Accession Number: CM.FE.2332-R
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