Winter
Factory:
Longton Hall Porcelain Manufactory
Proprietor:
William Littler & Co.
Soft-paste porcelain with thick bubbly clear glaze. Winter is shown as a bearded man wearing a close-fitting cap and a long coat with a high collar and many buttons . He stands on a low domed base decorated with applied leaves, and holds a handled brazier in front of himself.
History note: Mr A. Fleming, The Casket 47-57, Castle Road, Southsea, from whom bought for £5 (with Summer) on 16 September 1922 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 19.4 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Mid#
George II
Circa
1750
CE
-
1753
CE
The glassy soft-paste porcelain of Longton Hall contained flint glass, ground flint, gypsum, limestone, and ball clay. The lead in the glass permitted it to fuse at a lower temperature, but also made it prone to warp or collapse during firing. This is shown by many warped waster fragments excavated on the site. For analysis, see M.S. Tite and M. Bimson ‘A technological study of English porcelains’, Archaeometry, 33, pt 1 (1991), pp. 3-27; Andrew Middleton and Michael Cowell, ‘Report on the examination and analysis of some porcelains from Longton Hall and West Pans’ in Bernard M. Watney, ‘Excavations at Longton Hall porcelain manufactory, Part 3: the porcelain and other ceramic finds’, Post-medieval Archaeology, 27 (1993), pp. 94-108. See also Barker, David and Cole, Sam., ‘William Littler at Longton Hall’, in the same authors eds., Digging for Early Porcelain, The Archaeology of Six 18th-century British porcelain Factories, Stoke-on-Trent, 1998, pp. 4-21, especially pp. 11-15.
This figure belongs to the group of early Longton Hall figures described as ‘snowmen’ because of their thick glaze. It is one of a set of Rustic Seasons, no. 06 in Bradshaw’s list of early Longton Hall Figures, The figure and its companion figure of Summer C.3035A-1928, were copied from Chelsea red anchor period Seasons modelled by Joseph Wllems. When purchased by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher in 1922, they were attributed to Bow.
presumed lead-glaze
Lead-glaze
Soft-paste porcelain
Press-moulding
: Soft-paste porcelain, press-moulded, and covered with a thick, bubbly lead-glaze
Glazing (coating)
Accession number: C.3035B-1928
Primary reference Number: 133879
Glaisher MS Catalogue: 3938b
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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