IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 74420 accession number: C.3132B-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded, and glazed; the underside is unglazed except for a small area around the ventilation hole which has two firing cracks extending from it in opposite directions. The figure is supported on a five-sided rocky base with a low tree stump at the back and two groups of leaves applied to the top. Spring is represented as a girl, looking downwards to her left. She steps forward on her right leg and has her left extended behind. She holds a posy of flowers in her left hand which is raised and touches the top of her head. With her left arm she holds a large wicker basket full of flowers against her right hip. Her hair is drawn up into a knot on top of her head which is partly encircled by a garland of flowers and foliage. She wears an open, long-sleeved jacket over a chemise, a laced bodice, and a long skirt caught up over her right thigh by two flowerheads, and frilled around its lower edge. Her feet are bare. The figure is very heavy. object type: glazed hard-paste porcelain title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Mr J. Allen Jones, London whose offer to sell this figure and its pair for £35 on 17 May 1928 was accepted by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: J. W. L. Glaisher creditline: Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/74420 PEOPLE ------------------- Spring SUBJECTS ------------------- basket flower basket flower CATEGORIES ------ category: hard-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1775 - 1780 creation date earliest: 1775 creation date latest: 1780 culture: 18th Century, Late culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Bristol Porcelain Factory CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Bristol Porcelain 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 18th Century English Porcelain Figures 1745-1795 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_3132B_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_C_3132B_1928_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_3132B_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_C_3132B_1928_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_3132B_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_C_3132B_1928_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_3132B_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_C_3132B_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels