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Spring
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Spring
- Object:
Statuette
- Place of origin:
Plymouth (England), England (made)
- Date:
ca. 1770 (made)
- Artist/Maker:
Plymouth Porcelain Factory (manufacturer)
- Materials and Techniques:
Porcelain painted with enamels
- Credit Line:
Given by Lady Charlotte Schreiber
- Museum number:
414:688-1885
- Gallery location:
Ceramics Study Galleries, Britain & Europe, room 139, case 12, shelf 4
Physical description
Statuette in porcelain, painted with enamels, of a boy slightly draped, emblematic of Spring, from the Four Seasons, and he stands beside a tree stump on a high base with rococo scrollwork in relief on the front, and he has a garland of flowers on his head and a purple scarf over his right shoulder, and he holds a nest with a pair of birds in it, and at his side is a beehive.
Place of Origin
Plymouth (England), England (made)
Date
ca. 1770 (made)
Artist/maker
Plymouth Porcelain Factory (manufacturer)
Materials and Techniques
Porcelain painted with enamels
Dimensions
Height: 13.9 cm
Object history note
From a set of figures emblematic of the four seasons 414:688/ to C-1885 (Sch. I 699 to C).
Descriptive line
Statuette in porcelain, painted with enamels, of a boy slightly draped, emblematic of Spring, from the Four Seasons, made by Plymouth Porcelain Factory, Plymouth, ca. 1770.
Materials
Porcelain
Techniques
Painted
Subjects depicted
Flowers; Birds; Boy; Spring; Nest; Beehives
Categories
Porcelain; Ceramics
Collection code
CER
