Current Location: In storage
Titles
Winter
Maker(s)
Production:
Unidentified Staffordshire factory
(Probably)
Entities
Categories
Description
Lead-glazed earthenware painted in enamels; a ong-haired youth probably representing Winter from a set of Seasons
White earthenware with slightly blue tinted lead-glaze, painted in yellowish-green, flesh-pink, reddish-brown, brown and dark opaque brown enamels. The underside is concave and glazed, and has a large ventilation hole below the figure. The slender youth stands in front of a tree trunk on a low round mound base. He has long brown hair, a pale complexion, and bare legs and feet. He looks down towards his left. His right shoulder, arms and hands are concealed by a dark brown mantle lined with reddish-brown, which he holds around himself as if feeling cold. The tree trunk and the mound base are coloured overall in yellowish-green with a few brown brush strokes around the front of the base.
Notes
History note: Captain Reynolds' collection, Tiptree, Kelveden, Essex ; sold to Gill & Reigate, London, from whom this figure was purchased for £1.0.0. on 8 June 1910 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS. Trinity College, Cambridge
Legal notes
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Measurements and weight
Height: 17.8 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1928-12-07)
by
Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Dating
Early 19th century
Circa
1800
-
1810
Note
Rackham in his Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection, 1935, identified this figure as a youth representing Winter, and attributed this figure to the Hanley factory of Robert Wilson who had previously been in partnership with James Neale. Dr Glaisher however, had identified it as a 'pensive woman',
People, subjects and objects depicted
Components of the work
Surface
composed of
lead-glaze
( slightly blue tinted)
Decoration
composed of
enamel
( yellowish-green, flesh pink, brown, reddish-brown and dark opaque brown enamels)
Base
Width 7 cm
Materials used in production
white
Earthenware
Techniques used in production
Press-moulding
Inscription or legends present
Inscription present: rectangular white paper stick on label with blue plant motifs in the top corners and a narrow blue line on the left, top and right edges
- Text: no 3119/Staffordshire/figure of a pensive woman/b. in London/June 8 1909
- Location: On underside of base
- Method of creation: Hand-written in black
- Type: Label
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.930-1928
Primary reference Number: 76397
Old object number: 3119
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Monday 29 April 2024
Last processed: Tuesday 15 July 2025
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
