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Image of Gallery in South Kensington
On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 139, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Summer

Figure
ca. 1770 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Figure, in hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels, of a boy slightly draped, emblematic of Summer, from the Four Seasons; he stands beside a tree stump on a high base with rococo scrollwork in relief on the front; he wears a wreath of corn and slight blue and pink drapery; he carries a sheaf of corn under his left arm, and another sheaf is lying at his feet


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleSummer (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Hard-paste porcelain, painted in enamels
Brief description
Figure, in hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels, of a boy slightly draped, emblematic of Summer, from the Four Seasons, made by Plymouth Porcelain Factory, Plymouth, ca. 1770
Physical description
Figure, in hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels, of a boy slightly draped, emblematic of Summer, from the Four Seasons; he stands beside a tree stump on a high base with rococo scrollwork in relief on the front; he wears a wreath of corn and slight blue and pink drapery; he carries a sheaf of corn under his left arm, and another sheaf is lying at his feet
Dimensions
  • Height: 14.3cm
Credit line
Given by Lady Charlotte Schreiber
Object history
From a set of figures emblematic of the four seasons 414:688/ to C-1885 (Sch. I 699 to C)
Lady Charlotte Schreiber bought these four figures from Kerridge, London, for £2 5 shillings in May 1873, from George, London, for £3 17 shillings 6 pence in October 1878, from Kerridge, London, for £2 5 shillings in January 1873, and from Noakes, Worcester, for 2 shillings 6 pence in September 1867
Subjects depicted
Other number
Sch. I 699A - Schreiber number
Collection
Accession number
414:688/A-1885

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Record createdFebruary 5, 2009
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