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Reaper representing Summer
Production: Unidentified Staffordshire factory (Probably)
Earthenware figure of a youth holding a sickle and a wheatsheaf painted in blue, olive-green, yellow, and brown under lead-glaze
White earthenware, moulded, painted in blue, olive-green, yellow, and brown under slightly blue tinted lead-glaze. The almost circular low base is closed and glazed underneath, and has a central ventilation hole. The reaper stands leaning against a tree trunk on a low mound decorated with two bunches of grapes and leaves, and part of a third. He stands with his weight on his left leg with his right slightly behind it. His head and body are turned to the viewer's right, and he holds a sheaf of corn under his right arm, and a sickle in his left. He has dark brown hair and eyes, a white shirt, yellow breeches, blue stockings and brown shoes. The corn is yellowish-brown and his sickle, green. The tree trunk is streaked with blue and brown. The circular base has green sides and a yellow border, both indented with small circular depressions.
History note: Robert Henry Soden Smith, FSA (1822-90); lent to the Victoria and Albert Museum; Sotheby's, 27 May 1909, part of lot 90 with a figure of Winter (C.845-1928); bought for £1.12s. by S. Fenton of Cranbourn Street, London, on behalf of Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 20.9 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Late-19th Century, Early#
Circa
1790
-
1810
The youth probably repreents Summer from a set of Seasons, although Dr Glaisher identified it as Autumn
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( metallic oxides)
Surface
composed of
lead-glaze
Base
Depth 8.4 cm
Width 8.3 cm
Press-moulding : White earthenware, moulded, painted in blue, olive-green, yellow, and brown under slightly blue tinted lead-glaze. The base is closed and glazed underneath, and has a central ventilation hole.
Inscription present: rectangular white paper stick on label with a blue line on top and right edge, and part of a plant motif in the two top corners
Accession number: C.847-1928
Primary reference Number: 76220
Old object number: 3018
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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