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Woman holding a Cornucopia representing Plenty
Production: Unidentified Staffordshire factory
Cream earthenware, press-moulded, covered with blue-tinted lead-glaze (pearlware), and painted in polychrome enamels
Cream earthenware, press-moulded, covered with blue-tinted lead-glaze, and painted in blue, pale green, turquoise, yellow, dull pink, red, purple, brown, and black enamels. The figure is supported on a low straight-sided square base, which has a chamfered inner edge, and flat underside with a central ventilation hole. Plenty stands on a low mound with her bare feet slightly apart. Her head is turned slightly to her right, and she holds a large cornucopia in front of her with her left hand near the top and her right hand supporting its lower end. She has a yellow diadem over her brown hair which is dressed with a low chignon at the back. She wears a long yellow dress below a white short-sleeved tunic decorated with scatted groups of three blue dots and three red feathers, and having a red geometric border, and a red belt. The sleeve and neck edges are edged with blue. A dull pink drape descends from her left shoulder at the back and passes round her right side and the front of her body to a point under her left arm. The cornucopia is a similar shade of pink, and is filled with a pineapple, a melon, pears, apples, ears of wheat, and grapes in naturalistic colours. The low mound is coloured pale green and brown, and there is a reddish-brown line running round the base.
History note: Mr Morley, Cambridge, from whom bought for 7s. 6d. about 1893 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 26.6 cm
Width: 12.6 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century, Early#
George III
Circa
1800
-
1820
Allegorical figures representing Abundance or Plenty were usually shown either holding or accompanied by a cornucopia filled with fruits, and corn.
Decoration
composed of
enamel
( blue, pale green, turquoise, yellow, dull pink, red, purple, brown, and black)
Surface
composed of
lead-glaze
( slightly blue tinted)
Base
Depth 8.9 cm
Width 8.8 cm
cream Earthenware
Press-moulding : Cream earthenware, press-moulded, covered with blue-tinted lead-glaze, and painted in blue, pale green, turquoise, yellow, dull pink, red, purple, brown, and black enamels
Accession number: C.896-1928
Primary reference Number: 76305
Old object number: 489
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Woman holding a Cornucopia representing Plenty" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/76305 Accessed: 2024-12-22 22:54:20
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