Seated Girl representing Summer: C.3096B-1928

Titles

Seated Girl representing Summer

Maker(s)

Factory: Vauxhall Porcelain Factory (Probably)
Production: Longton Hall Porcelain Manufactory (Former attribution)

Entities

• Figure

Categories

• Porcelain
• Soft-paste porcelain

Description

Soft-paste porcelain, slip-cast, lead-glazed, and painted in green, yellow, pink and brown enamels, and gilt. The unglazed underside has a large circular hole near the back. The figure is on a shallow truncated oval base with a scrolled edge picked out with gilding. The girl sits on a yellow sheaf of corn. She is barefooted and has her hands over her lap, holding a now missing object. On her lap there is a loose heap of ears of corn and several more ears are scattered on the base around her feet. She wears a green hat with corn stalks projecting from the crown onto the brim, which is pink underneath and turned up at the front. She wears a low-necked pink dress with bows on the shoulders and elbows, and a white apron. In a set of four figures representing the Seasons.

Notes

History note: Vernon Roberts Collection, sold Puttick and Simpson, 23rd May 1924, lot 164; Dr J.W.L. Glaisher

Legal notes

Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest

Place(s) associated

• Vauxhall ⪼ Surrey ⪼ England
• Longton Hall ⪼ Staffordshire ⪼ England

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr

Dating

18th Century, Mid#
Circa 1753 CE - 1755 CE

Note

This model and its three companion Seasons were based on Meissen prototypes, and were formerly attributed to Longton Hall, near Newcastle-under-Lyme in Staffordshire. It has recently been suggested that they were made at Vauxhall, see Documentation, Spero and Massey.

School or Style

Rococo