Seated Man representing Autumn from a Set of Seasons
Factory: Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory
Soft-paste porcelain figure of a Seated Man representing Autumn, slip-cast, lead-glazed, and painted in turquoise, green, yellow, flesh, pink, orange, red, purple, and black enamels and gilt
Soft-paste porcelain figure of a Seated Man representing Autumn, slip-cast, lead-glazed, and painted in turquoise, green, yellow, flesh, pink, orange, red, purple, and black enamels and gilt. The unglazed underside has a large circular ventilation hole near the back. The rounded rectangular base has three low scroll feet at the front. It rises up at the back into a tree stump with on each side, a short branch bearing applied flowers and leaves. The man sits on the stump with his left foot over his right. His head is tilted to his left, and he supports a basket of grapes on his knee with his left hand, and holds a bunch of grapes over the basket in his right. He wears a turquoise hat with a yellow flower on the turned back brim at the front, behind which are two feathers, one red, and the other edged with purple. He has a pink jacket lined with yellow, a white waistcoat with gold binding and buttons, white breeches with a red, turquoise and gold floral pattern, an orange flower on each knee, and black shoes with a yellow flowers on the top. A small skin bag is slung on a white and gold strap across his body. The flowers on the stump are orange, and there is a yellow, orange and pink rose and three leaves on the viewer's right of the base, and three pink and orange flowers wand five leaves on the left. The scrolls are picked out in gold.
History note: Ralph Griffin, FSA, St John's College Cambridge
Given by Ralph Griffin, MA, FSA
Height: 14.7 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1918-08-28) by Griffin, Ralph, MA, FSA
Gold anchor period (1759-69)
18th Century, Mid
George II
George III
Circa
1759
CE
-
1769
CE
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( turquoise, green, yellow, flesh, pink, orange, red, purple, and black)
gold
Base
Width 8.1 cm
presumed lead; except for underside of base
Lead-glaze
Soft-paste porcelain
Slip-casting
: Soft-paste porcelain, slip-cast, lead-glazed, and painted in turquoise, green, yellow, flesh, pink, orange, red, purple, and black enamels and gilt
Lead-glazing
Inscription present: a gold anchor
Accession number: C.234A-1918
Primary reference Number: 80574
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Seated Man representing Autumn from a Set of Seasons" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/80574 Accessed: 2024-10-15 18:02:36
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/80574
|title=Seated Man representing Autumn from a Set of Seasons
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-10-15 18:02:36|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:
https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/objects/object-80574
Updates about future exhibitions and displays, family activities, virtual events & news. You'll be the first to know...