IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 140325 accession number: C.56A-1950 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 18 August 2015 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded, glazed, and painted in green, yellow flesh-pink, red, purple, reddish-brown, and black enamels, and gilded. The recessed underside is glazed except for the edge.The vase and figure stand on a low approximately circular base mottled on the front with green, yellow, and grey. The round vase has an aperture on the shoulder, and rises up in the centre to a shaped tray which supports three bunches of pale yellow corn stalks, and a sickle with a red-brown handle. The exterior of the vase is ridged vertically and draped with rocaille ornament painted in purple and gold. The girl kneels on her left knee on the vase with her right foot on the ground, and holds the corn stalks in both hands. She has black hair and brown eyes, and wears a white scarf tied around her head, a green bodice with a white fichu decorated with purple arrow heads between stripes around the shoulders, a white skirt with purple stripes, a white apron with red arrow motifs between stripes, and black buckled shoes. object type: Hard-paste porelain painted in enamels, and gilded. A pair with C.56B-1950 title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: uncertain before Mrs W.D. (Frances Louisa) Dickson LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by Mrs W.D. Dickson STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/140325 PEOPLE ------------------- woman SUBJECTS ------------------- autumn vase autumn vase TECHNIQUES ---------- press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: hard-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1755 - 1760 creation date earliest: 1755 creation date latest: 1760 culture: 18th Century, third quarter CREATORS -------- maker: Höchst Porcelain Manufactory maker: Becker, Johann Gottfried DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 14.5 dimension: Height units: in value: 5 11/16 dimension: Width units: cm value: 11.1 dimension: Width units: in value: 4⅜ EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures CITATIONS -------- Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures Höchster Porzellan 1746-1796 ---