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Standing Girl with Flowers, possibly representing Spring
Factory: Derby Porcelain Factory
Soft-paste porcelain figure of a Standing Girl with Flowers, slip-cast and painted overglaze in polychrome enamels and gilt.
Soft-paste porcelain figure of a Standing Girl with Flowers, slip-cast and painted overglaze in blue, turquoise, green, yellow, flesh, puce, red, purple, and a black enamels, and gilt. The underside is partially glazed and has a central small circular ventilation hole. The circular low mound base has scrolls in relief round the front, and at the back has a low tree stump with a short forked branch bearing applied white flowers and leaves on each side. The girl stands in front of it with her left foot advanced a little. She holds up the remains of a floral spray in her left hand, and with her right, holds up her apron which full of blue flowers and leaves. She has black hair and wears a yellow broad-brimmed hat with a purple underside to the brim, a turquoise bodice, with a red stomacher, a yellow skirt, a petticoat scattered with yellow and puce circular motifs, and black shoes with a red pom-pom on each. On the ground on each side of her there is a group of leaves and white flowers with yellow centres. The scrolls are picked out in gold.
History note: Unknown before testator
Bequeathed by E. Cecil Byas
Height: 12.0 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1938) by Byas, Cecil E.
18th Century, second half#
George III
Production date:
circa
AD 1770
Decoration composed of enamels ( blue, turquoise, green, yellow, flesh, puce, red, purple, and a black) lead-glaze gold
Slip-casting : Soft-paste porcelain, slip-cast and painted overglaze in blue, turquoise, green, yellow, flesh, puce, red, purple, and a black enamels, and gilt
Accession number: EC.19-1938
Primary reference Number: 42612
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Standing Girl with Flowers, possibly representing Spring" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/42612 Accessed: 2024-11-17 07:59:48
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