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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
1772-1775 (modelled)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Figure, in hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels, of Summer represented by young man clad in yellow-lined flowered drapery secured by a band passing over his shoulder on which are the zodiac signs; he holds a pair of shears in his right hand with which he is about to shear a ram lying with its legs bound on a green mound, beside which is a keg; he stands on an irregularly shaped base


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleSummer (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Hard-paste porcelain, painted with enamels
Brief description
Figure, in hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels, of Summer represented by young man and a ram, made by Bristol porcelain factory, Bristol, modelled 1772-1775
Physical description
Figure, in hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels, of Summer represented by young man clad in yellow-lined flowered drapery secured by a band passing over his shoulder on which are the zodiac signs; he holds a pair of shears in his right hand with which he is about to shear a ram lying with its legs bound on a green mound, beside which is a keg; he stands on an irregularly shaped base
Dimensions
  • Height: 24.8cm
Credit line
Given by Lady Charlotte Schreiber
Object history
One from a set of the Four Seasons 414:730/ to C-1885 (Sch. I 742 to C)
Lady Charlotte Schreiber purchased three of these figures from Mrs Haliburton, Richmond, for £21 in November 1869 and the fourth from Wareham, London, for £10 10 shillings in July 1872
Subjects depicted
Other number
Sch. I 742A - Schreiber number
Collection
Accession number
414:730/A-1885

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Record createdFebruary 18, 2009
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