Current Location: Gallery 27 (Glaisher)
Titles
Summer from a Set of Seasons
Maker(s)
Production:
James Neale & Co.
Entities
Categories
Description
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.
Notes
History note: Mrs W.D. (Frances Louisa) Dickson, Bournemouth
Legal notes
Given by Mrs W.D. Dickson
Measurements and weight
Height: 13.5 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Given
(1931-05-05)
by
Dickson, W. D. (Frances Louisa), Mrs
Dating
18th Century, Late
George III
Circa
1785
-
1790
Note
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.
School or Style
Rococo
People, subjects and objects depicted
Components of the work
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
Materials used in production
cream
Earthenware
Techniques used in production
Moulding
Inscription or legends present
Inscription present: the first m is only lightly impressed and looks at first sight like an n
- Text: Summer
- Location: On closed base near back edge
- Method of creation: Impressed
- Type: Inscription
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.26-1931
Primary reference Number: 73800
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024
Last processed: Wednesday 14 May 2025
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
