IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76310 accession number: C.899C-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 May 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Cream earthenware, press-moulded, covered with slightly blue-tinted lead-glaze, and painted in green, pale yellow, flesh-pink, a little red, pale lilac, brown, reddish-brown, and black enamels. The underside is closed and 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 reddish-brown band. The figure is supported on a mound base which rises up at the back into a tree stump, and is painted in green, brown and reddish-brown to resemble rocks and grass. The boy is barefooted and stands with his right foot a little in in front of the other. He looks downwards to a goblet of wine held in his left hand, and holds a bunch of grapes over it with this right, He has rosy cheeks and black hair, partly covered by a high-crowned black hat with a broad brim which is turned up at the front. He wears a white shirt, a pale lilac jacket, and knee-length pale yellow breeches. object type: lead-glazed earthenware painted in polychrome enamels. Autumn represented by a young man holding a bunch of grapes over a goblet of wine title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Sotheby's, 12 March 1909, part of lot 185; purchased by S. Fenton for £6.15s. on behalf of Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: J. W. L. Glaisher creditline: Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76310 PEOPLE ------------------- Autumn SUBJECTS ------------------- autumn autumn TECHNIQUES ---------- cream earthenware, press-moulded, covered with slightly blue-tinted lead-glaze, and painted in green, pale yellow, flesh-pink, a little red, pale lilac, brown, reddish-brown, and black enamels. The underside is closed and has a ventilation hole in the centre press-moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: pearlware category: enamel painted figures DATING ------ creation date: 1785 - 1800 creation date earliest: 1785 creation date latest: 1800 culture: 18th Century, Late culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Staffordshire factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 19.3 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge English Earthenware Figures 1740-1840 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_899C_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/mid_C_899C_1928_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_899C_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/preview_C_899C_1928_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_899C_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/mid_C_899C_1928_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_899C_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/preview_C_899C_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels