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Boy representing Summer from a set of Seasons
Factory: Bristol Porcelain Manufactory
Glazed hard-paste porcelain
Hard-paste greyish-white porcelain, press-moulded and glazed. The figure is supported on an oblong rocky base with a tree trunk at the back and a beehive beside it on the viewer's right. Summer is represented as a boy looking downards to his left. He stands on his right leg with his left bent at the knee and crossed in front of it. He leans his left elbow on a projecting branch of the tree. He supports a sheaf of corn on his right hip with his right hand, and holds a small posy of flowers in his left hand. He wears a wreath of corn over his short hair, a shirt with a frilled opening which has fallen off his left shoulder, and front -fall breeches. His lower legs and feet are bare. His coat is thrown over the beehive. The underside of the base has a large ventilation hole with a short and a long firing crack extending from it. The figure is very heavy.
History note: Mr J Allen Jones, London whose offer to sell this figure and its pair for £35 on 17 May 1928 was accepted by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 27.2 cm
Width: 14.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Late
Production date:
circa
AD 1775
clear; except for the outer edges of the underside of the base
Glaze
Hard-paste porcelain
Accession number: C.3132A-1928
Primary reference Number: 74419
Old object number: 5094
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Boy representing Summer from a set of Seasons" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/74419 Accessed: 2024-12-22 20:08:25
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