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Reaper representing Summer: C.847-1928

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Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Reaper representing Summer

Maker(s)

Production: Unidentified Staffordshire factory (Probably)

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Description

Earthenware figure of a youth holding a sickle and a wheatsheaf painted in blue, olive-green, yellow, and brown under lead-glaze

White earthenware, moulded, painted in blue, olive-green, yellow, and brown under slightly blue tinted lead-glaze. The almost circular low base is closed and glazed underneath, and has a central ventilation hole. The reaper stands leaning against a tree trunk on a low mound decorated with two bunches of grapes and leaves, and part of a third. He stands with his weight on his left leg with his right slightly behind it. His head and body are turned to the viewer's right, and he holds a sheaf of corn under his right arm, and a sickle in his left. He has dark brown hair and eyes, a white shirt, yellow breeches, blue stockings and brown shoes. The corn is yellowish-brown and his sickle, green. The tree trunk is streaked with blue and brown. The circular base has green sides and a yellow border, both indented with small circular depressions.

Notes

History note: Robert Henry Soden Smith, FSA (1822-90); lent to the Victoria and Albert Museum; Sotheby's, 27 May 1909, part of lot 90 with a figure of Winter (C.845-1928); bought for £1.12s. by S. Fenton of Cranbourn Street, London, on behalf of Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge

Legal notes

Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest

Measurements and weight

Height: 20.9 cm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr

Dating

18th Century, Late-19th Century, Early#
Circa 1790 - 1810

Note

The youth probably repreents Summer from a set of Seasons, although Dr Glaisher identified it as Autumn

People, subjects and objects depicted

Components of the work

Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( metallic oxides)
Surface composed of lead-glaze
Base Depth 8.4 cm Width 8.3 cm

Materials used in production

Earthenware

Techniques used in production

Press-moulding : White earthenware, moulded, painted in blue, olive-green, yellow, and brown under slightly blue tinted lead-glaze. The base is closed and glazed underneath, and has a central ventilation hole.

Inscription or legends present

Inscription present: rectangular white paper stick on label with a blue line on top and right edge, and part of a plant motif in the two top corners

  • Text: No 3018/Staffordshire/figure of a youth/holding corn & a/ sickle representing/Autumn./b. at Sotheby's/May 27 1909
  • Location: On underside of base at the back
  • Method of creation: Hand-written in faded black ink
  • Type: Label
  • Text: Received on loan from R Soden Smith FSA
  • Location: No longer present
  • Type: Label

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Identification numbers

Accession number: C.847-1928
Primary reference Number: 76220
Old object number: 3018
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Friday 15 December 2023 Last processed: Friday 15 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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