IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 73800 accession number: C.26-1931 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 5 June 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Cream earthenware, moulded, covered with a slightly blue tinted lead-glaze, and painted in turquoise, two shades of green, pale yellow, flesh pink, red, lilac, purple, reddish-brown, 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 purple line running round it. The boy representing Summer is seated on a high grassy mound with rococo-style scrolls picked out in turquoise, green and purple on the front and viewer's left side. He looks downwards to his left and holds a sheaf of corn and a sickle in his hands. His right leg is bent at the knee and his left leg is straight. He has shoulder-length brown hair and wears a cream wide-brimmed hat with a black band round the crown, a white shirt, reddish-brown coat with green lining, lilac breeches with purple spots, white stockings and black shoes. object type: lead-glazed earthenware painted in polychrome enamels. A seated boy holding a sheaf of corn and a sickle representing Summer title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: 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/73800 PEOPLE ------------------- Dickson, W. D. (Frances Louisa), Mrs Summer SUBJECTS ------------------- sickle sheaf of corn sickle sheaf of corn TECHNIQUES ---------- moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: pearlware category: enamel painted figures DATING ------ creation date: 1785 - 1790 creation date earliest: 1785 creation date latest: 1790 culture: 18th Century, Late culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: James Neale & Co. DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 13.5 CITATIONS -------- Creamware An Illustrated Encyclopaedia of British Pottery and Porcelain English Cream-coloured Earthenware Creamware and Pearlware. The Fifth Exhibition from the Northern Ceramic Society Neale Pottery and Porcelain --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_26_1931_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_26_1931_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_26_1931_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_26_1931_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_26_1931_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_26_1931_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_26_1931_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_26_1931_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels