IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 38488 accession number: C.3096D-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Thursday 11 August 2016 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain, slip-cast, lead-glazed, and painted in green, yellow, pink, red, brown, and black enamels, and gilt. The figure is on an approximately square base with rounded corners, decorated with a frill picked out in gold. The boy sits on a tree stump, with a smaller stump to his right supported on a small stump. He holds his hands up over the brazier and leans slightly towards it. He wears a pink coat with gold buttons on the pockets and bows on the shoulders, green breeches, and black shoes with bows on the front. The brazier is black with a yellow and red flame, and the tree trunk and support for the brazier are streaked in yellow, brown and green. In a set of four figures representing the Seasons. title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Vernon Roberts Collection, sold Puttick and Simpson, 23rd May 1924, lot 164; Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: J. W. L. Glaisher creditline: Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/38488 PEOPLE ------------------- boy SUBJECTS ------------------- winter tree stump winter tree stump TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain, slip-cast, painted in green, yellow, pink, red, brown, and black enamels, and gilt slip-casting TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: porcelain category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1753 - 1755 creation date earliest: 1753 creation date latest: 1755 culture: 18th Century, Mid# CREATORS -------- maker: Vauxhall Porcelain Factory maker: Longton Hall Porcelain Manufactory maker: Littler, William DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 12.3 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Longton Hall Porcelain English Ceramics, The Frances and Emory Locke Collection Vauxhall porcelain: A Tentative Chronology Vauxhall porcelain figures ---