IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 71135 accession number: C.101-1932 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. object type: 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 title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Uncertain before donor, Mrs W.D. (Frances Louisa) 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/71135 PEOPLE ------------------- gardener SUBJECTS ------------------- flower flower TECHNIQUES ---------- 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 slip-casting TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: bone china DATING ------ creation date: 1810 - 1825 creation date earliest: 1810 creation date latest: 1825 culture: 19th Century, Early# culture: George III culture: George IV CREATORS -------- maker: Derby Porcelain Factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 25.3 CITATIONS -------- Derby Porcelain Figures 1750-1848 The Old Derby China Factory English Pottery and Porcelain Derby Porcelain --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_101_1932_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_C_101_1932_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_101_1932_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_C_101_1932_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_101_1932_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_C_101_1932_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_101_1932_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_C_101_1932_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels