IDENTIFIERS
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id:	73640
accession number:	C.25-1931

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Monday 5 June 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Cream earthenware, moulded, covered with very slightly blue-tinted lead-glaze, and painted in yellow,  two shades of green, pale purplish-pink, dark purplish-pink, yellowish-brown, and black enamels. The closed underside has a circular ventilation hole in the centre The base is square with straight sides, and a moulded upper edge with a dark purplish-pink line running round it. Spring is represented by a girl seated on a grassy mound with a shell on its back and rococo style scrolls on the front. She holds a basket of polychrome flowers and foliage in her left arm and holds a rose in her right which rests on her breast. She has a broad-brimmed hat with a green edged hat-band, pompom ornament and edge, and wears a purplish-pink bodice, a white skirt with scattered purplish-pink flowers, and border round the hem, black shoes, with red pompoms on top.
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object type: Creamware painted in polychrome enamels. Spring represented by a seated girl holding a basket of flowers.
title:	figure

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Mrs. W.D. (Frances Louisa) Dickson, Bournemouth


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
creditline: Given by Mrs W.D. Dickson

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/73640

PEOPLE
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Dickson, W. D. (Frances Louisa), Mrs
Spring

SUBJECTS
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flower
shell
flower
shell



TECHNIQUES
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cream-coloured earthenware, moulded, covered with clear, very slightly blue-tinted lead-glaze, and painted in yellow, brownish-yellow, two shades of green, pale and dark purplish-pink, red, and black enamels. The vase has a circular ventilation hold in the middle.
moulding
TECHNIQUES
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lead-glazing

CATEGORIES
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category: lead-glazed earthenware
category: pearlware
category: enamel painted figures

DATING
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creation date:	1785 - 1790
creation date earliest:	1785
creation date latest:	1790
culture:	18th Century, Late
culture:	George III

CREATORS
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maker: James Neale & Co.

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 13.9



CITATIONS
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English Cream-coloured Earthenware
An Illustrated Encyclopaedia of British Pottery and Porcelain
Creamware
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 II, Earthenware
Creamware and Pearlware. The Fifth Exhibition from the Northern Ceramic Society
Neale Pottery and Porcelain
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