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Four Children representing Winter from a set of groups of the Seasons
Factory:
Frankenthal Porcelain Factory
Modeller:
Lanz, Johann Wilhelm
Hard-paste porcelain painted overglaze in enamels and gilt
Hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded, glazed, painted in pale green, yellow flesh pink, puce red, several shades of pale brown, grey, and black enamels, and gilt. The glazed underside has a straight-sided oval support set in from the edge, and five circular ventilation holes: a small, a medium, and a large at the front, and two small at the back. The broad oval base, has a scrolled and frilled edge, and a tall tree at the back, in front of which is a Rococo scrolled arbour with a tall pedestal at the back and two low pedestals at the front. The frilled edge is puce, and the pedestals are decorated with a puce trellis with four dots in each cell. The scrolls are edged in gold. A mask is perched on the viewer's left of the tall pedestal, and a skate lies on the base below it. At centre front there is a log fire and a bent stick. One child, nude and wearing a scanty white drape decorated with red floral sprigs, and a white cloak with grey patches, stands on the tall pedestal holding a black mask in his left hand. Below him on the viewers left is a seated boy warming his hands at the fire. He wears a black fur-edged cap, a white fur-edged cloat with a puce floral pattern and gold buttons, and puce striped breeches. On the viewer's right is a seated nude child wearing a pale yellow drape which he holds to his head with his left hand while looking down towards the fire. Further to the right is a seated child tying a skate onto this left foot. He is nude apart from a green, fur-edged cloak which covers his head and back, yellow socks, and skates. The tree is partly covered in applied green moss and has a few leaves at the ends of its stumpy branches.
History note: Uncertain before Mrs W.D. (Frances Louisa) Dickson
Given by Mrs W.D. Dickson
Height: 25.6 cm
Height: 10 in
Width: 22.5 cm
Width: 8⅞ in
Method of acquisition: Given (1932) by Dickson, W. D. (Frances Louisa), Mrs
18th Century, third quarter#
Circa
1760
CE
-
1770
CE
Decoration
composed of
enamel
( pale green, yellow flesh pink, puce red, several shades of pale brown, grey, and black)
gold
Parts
Press-moulding
: Hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded in parts, assembled, glazed and painted in pale green, yellow flesh pink, puce red, several shades of pale brown, grey, and black enamels, and gilt.
Glazing
Inscription present: crown over CT monogram
Accession number: C.41-1932
Primary reference Number: 74960
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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