Flora representing Spring from a Set of Antique Seasons
Factory:
Bow Porcelain Manufactory
Modeller:
Meyer, Friedrich Elias I
(After)
Soft-paste porcelain figure of Flora representing Spring, press-moulded, with hand-modelled details, painted over lead-glaze in polychrome enamels.
Soft-paste porcelain figure of Flora representing Spring, press-moulded, with hand-modelled details, painted over lead-glaze in blue, green, yellow, pink, red, purple, purplish-brown, and black enamels. The closed under-side is unglazed and has a circular ventilation hole in the middle. The almost circular, high mound base has a square aperture at the back to take an attachment. The front is decorated in relief with rococo scrolls and moss, and with two applied flowers each with five leaves. On the proper right side there is a large vase with scrolled shoulders bedecked with a garland of flowers and foliage, and containing an arrangement of flowers. Flora stands beside it with her right leg forward, her right arm curved round the top of the vase and her left arm in front of her and across her body. She has a green and blue jewel on her forehead, a bunch of flowers on the left side of her head and a black bow on the back of it. She wears a long, flowing, pink drape with a white lining with a polychrome floral pattern, which passes over her right shoulder, across her back, and down to the ground. It is held round her waist at the front by a black belt. The scrolls on the base are picked out in pale purple, and the moss is pale green. The two flowers are yellow with blue centres and the leaves are green. The flowers in and on the vase are multicoloured.
History note: Unknown before donor, Mrs W.D. (Frances Louisa) Dickson, Bournemouth
Given by Mrs W.D. Dickson
Height: 23.8 cm
Width: 11.8 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1932-06-13) by Dickson, W. D. (Frances Louisa), Mrs
18th Century, second half#
George III
Circa
1760
CE
-
1765
CE
The figure was derived from a Meissen model by F.E. Meyer
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( in blue, green, yellow, pink, red, purple, purplish-brown, and black)
Details
presumed lead
Lead-glaze
presumed phosphatic
Soft-paste porcelain
Press-moulding
: Soft-paste porcelain, press-moulded, with hand-modelled details, painted over lead-glaze in polychrome enamels
Glazing (coating)
Accession number: C.29-1932
Primary reference Number: 41773
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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