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Spring from a Set of Seasons
Manufacturer: James Neale & Co.
Creamware painted in polychrome enamels. Spring represented by a seated girl holding a basket of flowers.
Cream earthenware, moulded, covered with very slightly blue-tinted lead-glaze, and painted in yellow, two shades of green, pale purplish-pink, dark purplish-pink, yellowish-brown, and black enamels. The closed underside has a circular ventilation hole in the centre The base is square with straight sides, and a moulded upper edge with a dark purplish-pink line running round it. Spring is represented by a girl seated on a grassy mound with a shell on its back and rococo style scrolls on the front. She holds a basket of polychrome flowers and foliage in her left arm and holds a rose in her right which rests on her breast. She has a broad-brimmed hat with a green edged hat-band, pompom ornament and edge, and wears a purplish-pink bodice, a white skirt with scattered purplish-pink flowers, and border round the hem, black shoes, with red pompoms on top.
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History note: Mrs. W.D. (Frances Louisa) Dickson, Bournemouth
Given by Mrs W.D. Dickson
Height: 13.9 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1931-05-05) by Dickson, W. D. (Frances Louisa), Mrs
18th Century, Late
George III
Circa
1785
-
1790
James Neale (c. 1739/40-1814), an earthenware dealer in London since the 1760s, took over Humphrey Palmer's factory in High Street, Hanley in 1778, and from at least 1781 traded as James Neale & Co. Neale appointed a manager, Robert Wilson, and returned to London. The firm produced very well-modelled and painted figures, such as the set of Seasons to which this model belongs.
Decoration
composed of
enamel
( yellow, yellowish-brown, two shades of green, pale and darker purplish-pink, red, and black)
Base
Depth 5.6 cm
Width 5.7 cm
cream
Earthenware
presumed lead-glaze; very slightly blue tinted
Lead-glaze
Moulding
: Cream-coloured earthenware, moulded, covered with clear, very slightly blue-tinted lead-glaze, and painted in yellow, brownish-yellow, two shades of green, pale and dark purplish-pink, red, and black enamels. The vase has a circular ventilation hold in the middle.
Lead-glazing
Accession number: C.25-1931
Primary reference Number: 73640
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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