Current Location: In storage
Titles
Woman, perhaps Summer
Maker(s)
Production:
Unidentified Staffordshire factory
Entities
Categories
Description
Lead-glazed earthenware painted in polychrome enamels. A woman in classical costume holding a cornucopia and a bunch of corn stalks
Pale cream earthenware, moulded, lead-glazed and painted in green, yellow, flesh pink, mauve, red, and dark brown enamels. The figure is supported on a dark brown square straight-sided base which is closed and concave underneath and has a central ventilation hole. The woman steps forward on her left foot and has her right leg relaxed at the knee. In her right arm she holds a large cornucopia filled with fruit and corn stalks and supports its lower end with her hand. In her left hand she holds up a bunch of corn stalks. She has a tanned complexion, and wears a wreath of yellow ears of corn over her brown hair, which is swept up at the back into a bun with tresses hanging down from it onto her shoulder. She is dressed in a red tunic with elbow-length sleeves and pale green edges, a long dappled mauve cloak with pale green lower edge, and sandals with red straps.
Notes
History note: A.G. Smith, Wardour Street, London, from whom bought for £2 on 5 February 1905 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Legal notes
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Measurements and weight
Height: 21.1 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1928-12-07)
by
Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Dating
Early 19th century
George III
Production date:
circa
AD 1820
Note
This figure may have been the figure of Summer in a set of Seasons, or a singleton representing Plenty or Abundance
School or Style
Neoclassical
People, subjects and objects depicted
Components of the work
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( green, yellow, flesh pink, mauve, red, and dark brown)
Surface
composed of
lead-glaze
Base
Depth 7.1 cm
Width 7 cm
Materials used in production
Earthenware
Techniques used in production
Moulding
: Pale cream earthenware, moulded, lead-glazed and painted in green, yellow, flesh pink, mauve, red, and dark brown enamels; the glazed underside has a central ventilation hole
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.918-1928
Primary reference Number: 76359
Old object number: 2343
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
