Current Location: Gallery 26 (Lower Marlay)
Titles
Winter from a Set of Rustic Seasons
Maker(s)
Factory:
Bow Porcelain Manufactory
Entities
Categories
Description
Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, figure of Winter, press-moulded, with hand-modelled parts, painted underglaze in blue, and overglaze in polychrome enamels, and gilt.
Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, figure of Winter, press-moulded, with hand-modelled parts, painted underglaze in blue, and overglaze in pale blue, turquoise, green, yellow, flesh-pink, puce, orange-red, red, brown, and black enamels, and gilt. The square base has scrolled edges and four scroll feet with a pierced rocaille motif between the front two. Winter sits on a heap of logs, pierced at the back by a roughly square aperture to take an attachment. He leans forward over a vase-shaped brazier. His left leg is crossed over his right, and his hands are held together over the brazier. He wears a puce hooded coat with a yellow lining, gold buttons, and dark blue cuffs with gold buttons. His breeches are white with a pattern of yellow, green, puce, and gold circular motifs, and he has white stockings, and black shoes with red and gold ties. The top of the base is incongruously decorated with three groups of three flowers and leaves. The edges and feet of the base are picked out in turquoise and gold, and the rocaille motif in puce and turquoise.
Notes
History note: Colonel and Mrs W.D. Dickson
Legal notes
Given by Mrs W.D. Dickson
Measurements and weight
Height: 16.0 cm
Width: 10.5 cm
Place(s) associated
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Stratford-le-Bow
⪼ Essex
⪼ England
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Given
(1950)
by
Dickson, W. D. (Frances Louisa), Mrs
Dating
18th Century, third quarter#
George III
Circa
1760
-
1770
School or Style
Rococo
People, subjects and objects depicted
Components of the work
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( pale blue, turquoise, green, yellow, flesh-pink, puce, orange-red, red, brown, and black)
lead-glaze
( presumed lead)
gold
Parts
Materials used in production
presumed phosphatic
Soft-paste porcelain
Techniques used in production
Press-moulding
: Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded, with hand-modelled parts, painted underglaze in blue, and overglaze in polychrome enamels, and gilt
Glazing (coating)
References and bibliographic entries
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Bow Porcelain
page(s): p. 123
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Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Ceramics, Catalogue of English Porcelain, Earthenware, Enamels and Glass collected by Charles Schreiber Esq., M.P., and the Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Schreiber, and presented to the Museum in 1884, Volume I, Porcelain
page(s): p. 23
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Bow Porcelain Figures circa 1748-1774
page(s): pp. 129, 172
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A Treasury of Bow, A Survey of the Bow Factory from First Patent until Closure 1744-1774
page(s): pp. 14-5, 73
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English Enamels and British and Irish Ceramics, 26th February 1986
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A Celebration of the English Country House, 7 April 2004
page(s): 25
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.85-1950
Primary reference Number: 42219
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Tuesday 25 August 2015
Last processed: Wednesday 13 December 2023
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
