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Summer from a Set of Seasons
Production: James Neale & Co.
Lead-glazed earthenware painted in polychrome enamels. A seated boy holding a sheaf of corn and a sickle representing Summer
Cream earthenware, moulded, covered with a slightly blue tinted lead-glaze, and painted in turquoise, two shades of green, pale yellow, flesh pink, red, lilac, purple, reddish-brown, 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 purple line running round it. The boy representing Summer is seated on a high grassy mound with rococo-style scrolls picked out in turquoise, green and purple on the front and viewer's left side. He looks downwards to his left and holds a sheaf of corn and a sickle in his hands. His right leg is bent at the knee and his left leg is straight. He has shoulder-length brown hair and wears a cream wide-brimmed hat with a black band round the crown, a white shirt, reddish-brown coat with green lining, lilac breeches with purple spots, white stockings and black shoes.
History note: Mrs W.D. (Frances Louisa) Dickson, Bournemouth
Given by Mrs W.D. Dickson
Height: 13.5 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. Their appearance is much closer to that of porcelain figures than most Staffordshire earthenware figures.
Decoration
composed of
enamel
( turquoise, two shades of green, pale yellow, flesh pink, red, lilac, purple, reddish-brown, brown, and black)
Surface
composed of
lead-glaze
( very slightly tinted blue)
Base
Depth 5.5 cm
Width 5.6 cm
cream Earthenware
Inscription present: the first m is only lightly impressed and looks at first sight like an n
Accession number: C.26-1931
Primary reference Number: 73800
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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