IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 42614 accession number: C.87-1950 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain figure of Winter, slip cast, and painted over lead-glaze with a spot of blue, green, yellow, orange, pale mauve, red, pale brown, grey, and black enamels, and gilt. The flat, unglazed base has a small circular ventilation hole below the support. The round, almost flat base rises up at the back into a short cylindrical support for the figure. Winter stands facing front, with his heels together and toes apart, looking down at a basket which he holds in both hands. He wears a yellow cap with an upturned fur brim, orange ear flaps, and a gold button on top. He has a long white coat with a wide upturned collar, five gold buttons down the front, broad cuffs with three gold buttons on each, and a pocket on his right side with three gold buttons. Under his coat he has a yellow waistcoat, pale purple breeches, and white long stockings.His black shoes have yellow flaps on the front, and red heels. On top of the base there is a yellow flower with two leaves; two orange flowers with three leaves, and a pink flower with two leaves. object type: soft-paste porcelain painted in polychrome enamels, and gilt title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Unknown before donor, Mrs W.D. (Frances Louisa) Dickson, Bournemouth LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by Mrs W.D. Dickson STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/42614 SUBJECTS ------------------- winter winter TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain, press-moulded, and painted overglaze in yellow, orange, pale mauve, red, pale brown, grey, and black enamels and gilt slip-casting TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1752 - 1756 creation date earliest: 1752 creation date latest: 1756 culture: Red anchor period (1752-1756) culture: 18th Century, Mid# culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory maker: Willems, Joseph DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 13 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures CITATIONS -------- Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures Chelsea Sale Catalogue, 1755 Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge A Snuff-taker and a Lady English Porcelain Figures of the Eighteenth Century Chelsea Porcelain at Williamsburg Eighteenth Century English Porcelain Figures 1745-1795 English Furniture,Ceramics and Decorations including property from the Collections of the Dowager Duchess of Bedford and Mrs Douglas Auchincloss Fine British & European Ceramics & Glass including the Fritz & Mary Biemann Collection The Roy Hogarth Collection of Rare English Figures ---