IDENTIFIERS
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id:	76309
accession number:	C.899B-1928

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Friday 15 December 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: 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.
object type: lead-glazed earthenware painted in enamels. Summer represented as a girl holding a sickle and a wheatsheaf
title:	figure

NOTES
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type: history note
value: 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


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	J. W. L. Glaisher
creditline: Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76309

PEOPLE
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Summer




TECHNIQUES
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lead-glazing
TECHNIQUES
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moulding

CATEGORIES
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category: lead-glazed earthenware
category: pearlware
category: enamel painted figures

DATING
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creation date:	1790 - 1800
creation date earliest:	1790
creation date latest:	1800
culture:	18th Century, Late
culture:	George III

CREATORS
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maker: uncertain

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 19.2



CITATIONS
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Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
English Earthenware Figures 1740-1840
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