IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76308 accession number: C.899A-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 15 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Pale cream earthenware, moulded, covered with slightly blue tinted lead-glaze (pearl glaze), and painted in blue, turquoise, greyish-green, yellow, flesh pink, pink, maroon, pale brown, dark brown, and black enamels. There is a ventilation hole in the centre of the underside. The base is square with straight sides canted inwards on the underside, and is decorated on each side with a continuous maroon band. The figure is supported on a mound base which rises up at the back and is painted in green and brown to resemble rocks and grass. The girl stands with her bare feet slightly apart and her head turned towards her right. In her right hand she holds a small bunch of flowers up to her chest, and in her left hand holds a basket of flowers. She has pale brown hair and a black broad-brimmed hat perched on the right side of her head. She wears a white chemise, a pink bodice with maroon edges, a turquoise stomacher, and a white skirt which is hitched up at the front to reveal a turquoise lining, and below it, a pink petticoat with a maroon criss-cross border. object type: lead-glazed earthenware painted in polychrome enamels. Spring represented by a girl holding a posy and a basket of flowers. title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Sotheby's, 12 March, 1909, part of lot 185; purchased by S. Fenton of Cranbourn Street, for £6.15s. on behalf of 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/76308 PEOPLE ------------------- Spring TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: pearlware category: enamel painted figures DATING ------ creation date: 1785 - 1800 creation date earliest: 1785 creation date latest: 1800 culture: 18th Century, Late culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Staffordshire factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 19.9 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge English Earthenware Figures 1740-1840 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_899A_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/mid_C_899A_1928_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_899A_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/preview_C_899A_1928_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_899A_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/mid_C_899A_1928_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_899A_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/preview_C_899A_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels