These images are provided for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons License (BY-NC-ND). To license a high resolution version, please contact our image library who will discuss fees, terms and waivers.
Download this imageCreative commons explained - what it means, how you can use our's and other people's content.
Winter
Production: Unidentified Staffordshire factory
Lead-glazed earthenware painted in polychrome enamels. Winter represented by a young man skating
Cream earthenware, press-moulded, covered in blue-tinted lead-glaze, and painted in green, blue, pale yellow dark yellow, pink, flesh-pink, a little red, maroon, brown, and black enamels. The closed underside has a central ventilation hole. The base is square with straight sides canted inwards on the underside, and is decorated on each side with a continuous maroon band. The young man stands on a rounded area of blue ice with grooved sides, which has a brown and green tree stump at the back. He looks down and turns his head towards his left as he steps forward on his right foot, clasping his arms and hands together in front of him. He has brown hair partly hidden by a high crowned black hat with broad brim which is upturned at the front. He wears a pink cloak over a dark yellow jacket and paler yellow breeches, white stockings, and black shoes with skates attached to them by red straps and bows.
History note: Sotheby's, 12 March 1909, part of lot 185; purchased for £6.15s. by S. Fenton of Cranbourn Street, on behalf of Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 19.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Late
George III
Circa
1785
-
1800
Possibly made by a member of the Wood family
Decoration
composed of
enamel
( pale-blue, greyish-green, two shades of yellow, pink, flesh pink, maroon, red, pale brown, dark brown, and black)
Base
Depth 7.8 cm
Width 7.8 cm
slightly blue tinted
Lead-glaze
Earthenware
Press-moulding
: Cream earthenware, press-moulded, covered with blue-tinted lead-glaze and painted in pale-blue, greyish-green, two shades of yellow, pink, flesh pink, maroon, red, pale brown, dark brown, and black enamels; the closed underside has a central ventilation hole
Lead-glazing
Accession number: C.899D-1928
Primary reference Number: 76311
Old object number: 3012
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Winter" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/76311 Accessed: 2024-12-18 13:21:15
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/76311
|title=Winter
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-12-18 13:21:15|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:
https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/api/v1/objects/object-76311
To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:
<div class="text-center">
<figure class="figure">
<img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_899D_1928_281_29.jpg"
alt="Winter"
class="img-fluid" />
<figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Winter</figcaption>
</figure>
</div>
Updates about future exhibitions and displays, family activities, virtual events & news. You'll be the first to know...
