Figure in hard-paste biscuit porcelain, representing Summer, made at Niderviller pottery and porcelain factory, France, ca. 1780-1793.

Figure in hard-paste biscuit porcelain, representing Summer, from a set of the four Seasons. A peasant girl standing on a circular base, and holding a birds' nest containing fledglings, and a sheaf of corn is in the fold of her apron.;

Given by Mrs Herbert Allen (Maude Louise Allen)

According to the register this was probably modelled by Lemire (ie Charles-Gabriel Sauvage, known as Lemire, 1741-1827, who left Luneville sometime before 1779 and subsequently worked at Niderviller). Another from the same set (C.125-1922) is reproduced by W. B. Honey, French Porcelain (1950 and 1972), pl. 91, where dated to about 1765-75. Aileen Dawson, Eighteenth-century French porcelain in the Ashmolean Museum, 1996, cat. 219, illustrates a similar model to the last one, which she dates to ca. 1780.

C.124-1922