Current Location: In storage
Titles
Summer
Maker(s)
Factory:
uncertain
Entities
Categories
Description
Lead-glazed earthenware painted in enamels. Summer represented as a girl holding a sickle and a wheatsheaf
Earthenware, moulded, covered with slightly blue tinted lead-glaze, and painted in greyish-green, pale and dark yellow, flesh pink, pink, maroon, pale brown, dark brown, and black enamels. The underside has a ventilation hole in the centre. The base is square with straight sides canted inwards on the underside, and is decorated on each side with a continuous maroon band. The figure is supported on a mound base which rises up at the back and is painted in green and brown to resemble rocks and grass. Summer is represented by a young woman standing holding a sickle in her right hand and a sheaf of corn in her left arm. She looks downwards to the viewer's right. She has pale brown hair covered by a white hat with a narrow brim tied under her chin with a black ribbon, and wears a white chemise which has fallen off her right shoulder, a pink bodice laced down the back, a white skirt with maroon trellis border on the lower edge, and a white apron.
Notes
History note: Sotheby's, 12 March 1909, part of lot 185; purchased for £6.15s. by S. Fenton, Cranbourn Street, on behalf of Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Legal notes
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Measurements and weight
Height: 19.2 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1928-12-07)
by
Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Dating
18th Century, Late
George III
1790
CE
-
1800
CE
Note
Possibly by a member of the Wood family
People, subjects and objects depicted
Components of the work
Decoration
composed of
enamel
( greyish-green, pale and dark yellow, flesh pink, pink, maroon, pale brown, dark brown, and black)
Base
Depth 7.8 cm
Width 7.8 cm
Materials used in production
tinted slightly blue
Lead-glaze
Earthenware
Techniques used in production
Lead-glazing
Moulding
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.899B-1928
Primary reference Number: 76309
Old object number: 3011
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024
Last processed: Tuesday 15 July 2025
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
